Procollina Metcalf, 1952

Sanborn, Allen F., 2018, The cicada genus Procollina Metcalf, 1952 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae): redescription including fourteen new species, with a key to the species of the subtribe Dazina Kato, 1932 rev. stat., the description of the Aragualnini n. tribe, and one new combination, Zootaxa 4389 (1), pp. 1-65 : 6-7

Genus Procollina Metcalf, 1952

Collina Distant 1905a: 142 .

Procollina Metcalf 1952 nom. nov. pro Collina Distant, 1905 nec Collina Bonarelli, 1893: 229 .

Type species. Odopoea biolleyi Distant 1903: 526 ( Costa Rica).

Species included. The genus is represented currently by the following 18 species: P. biolleyi ( Distant, 1903) , P. convexa n. sp., P. guatemalensis n. sp., P. hondurensis n. sp., P. mayaensis n. sp., P. medea , P. mesomaculata n. sp., P. minima n. sp., P. nicaraguaensis n. sp., P. nigrapilosa n. sp., P. nuevoleonensis n. sp., P. obesa ( Distant, 1906) , P. parva n. sp., P. queretaroensis , P. tamaulipasensis n. sp., P. ulnamaculata n. sp., P. ustulata n. sp., and P. webbi n. sp.

Description. Body size variable (15.9–29 mm body length). Head not as wide as mesonotum (head as wide as or slightly wider than mesonotum in P. parva n. sp.), frons moderately prominent, angled ventrally to frontoclypeal suture, its lateral margins a little discontinuous with those of the vertex, vertex at area of ocelli as long as or a little shorter than frons, eyes not projecting beyond the anterior angles of the pronotum, ocelli closer to each other than to eyes; postclypeus flattened, lacking central sulcus, rounded or transverse anterior margin, rostrum length species specific, reaching the hind trochanters or extending to hind coxae or as far as abdominal sternite II. Pronotum shorter than mesonotum, lateral margins ampliated, medially angulate or rounded; mesonotum to base of cruciform elevation about as long as head and pronotum together, not as wide as lateral pronotal collar; metanotum extends laterally beyond wing groove, cruciform elevation smoothly arched posteriorly. Fore wings and hind wings hyaline with eight and six apical cells, respectively, fore wings may be bronzed. Fore wings more or less maculate with the basal cell longer than broad. Radial and radiomedial crossveins generally parallel, radiomedial crossvein may be more oblique in some specimens. Fore femora with elongated, adpressed primary spine, upright secondary spine, and a small tertiary spine, tarsi three-segmented. Male opercula generally with rounded posterior margin barely covering tympanal cavity or extending to middle of sternite II, opercula well separated along midline, meracanthus tapering to a point, not reaching to middle of operculum, female operculum with straight lateral and curved posterior margin, smaller extending medially only to medial base of meracanthus, meracanthus generally of similar shape to male for each species extending to or beyond posterior margin of female operculum. Abdomen considerably longer than distance between apex of head and posterior of cruciform elevation, lateral margins curving, expanding laterally to tergite 4 where the abdomen begins narrowing posteriorly to the genitalia, almost parallel in biolleyi , male sternites translucent, epipleurites folded toward dorsal surface producing a channel on the lateral margins of the male abdomen. Timbal cover reduced, recurved posteriorly forming a ridge along the posterior timbal cavity, timbal completely exposed extending below wing bases, tympana concealed by opercula. Male sternite VIII U-shaped or V-shaped. Female sternite VII with sinuate or extended lateroposterior margin and medial notch. Pygofer distal shoulder rounded, dorsal beak present, roughly triangular, pygofer basal lobe indistinct, pygofer upper lobe elongated, flattened, adpressed against or separated from pygofer, median uncus lobe short, surrounded by lateral uncus lobes that form an arch distally when viewed from the side, male aedeagus a simple tubular structure. Female abdominal segment 9 with dorsal beak well defined and sinuate posterior margin, ovipositor sheath extends to or beyond dorsal beak.

Measurements (mm). Length of body: 15.9–29.8; length of fore wing: 20.9–41.4; width of fore wing: 7.2– 12.9; length of head: 2.4–4.3; width of head including eyes: 4.8–8.8; width of pronotum including suprahumeral plates: 5.9–12.9; width of mesonotum: 4.9–9.5.

Diagnosis. Within the Dazina, Procollina can be distinguished from the two species of Daza which posses a head including eyes that is as wide as the base of the mesonotum, the space between pronotal dilations is equal to the greatest width of the abdomen, the lateral margins of the pronotum are broadly angulate, the basal cell of the fore wing is twice as long as broad, and the larger body size (body length greater than 34 mm) of the Daza species. The single species of the South American genus Onoralna can be distinguished by its rounded lateral pronotum, thin body with parallel sides, large, maculate fore wings (1.75x body length), fore wings and hind wings with a series of maculate spots along the ambient vein, a mesonotal stridulatory apparatus, and a timbal without ribs. The single species of the South American Aragualna Champanhet, Boulard & Gaiani, 2000 is assigned to a new tribe within the Cicadettinae below.

Distribution. The genus is found over much of Central America including references to Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2013; 2014) and Nicaragua ( Sanborn & Maes 2012; Maes et al. 2012). The first records for Honduras are provided here.