Chromatophotina cofan Rivera n. sp.

(Figures 1 D, 4A–C)

Type material. Holotype female: Ecuador: Sucumbios, Coca/Lago Agrio, San Pedro de los Cofanes, 415m, 0º08’S 77º52’W, 23/23.IX. 1997 (C, Amégdégnato & S. Poulain leg.). The specimen was collected in a young secondary forest. Deposited at MNHN.

Description. Body green with yellow blotches on abdominal tergites; pronotum with white longitudinal stripe on each side. Measurements (in mm): body length, 37.0; head width: 5.3; pronotum, 13.0; fore coxa, 8.0; fore femur, 9.5; fore tibia, 5.5; mesothoracic wing: length 15.5, width 5.5; metathoracic wing, 12.0.

Head pentagonal in shape (Figure 4 A), juxtaocular tubercles weakly developed, as elevated as the vertex, forming a more or less continuous outline with the vertex; frontal shield transversal, approximately 6 times as wide as long. Antenna filiform, slightly over 10 mm long, yellowish in their basal third, progressively turning darker towards the tip.

Thorax. Pronotum slender (Figure 4 B); lateral edges almost smooth. Coxae of fore legs (Fig. 4 C) with margins exhibiting small denticles, other surfaces generally smooth. Spination formula: F=16IS/5ES/3DS and T=18-17IS/19ES. Mesothoracic wings opaque, green except for the costal area which is white and covered with white, dusty matter. Metathoracic wings short and squarish; costal area greenish-white; discal and anal areas bright yellow, opaque.

Abdomen. Supra-anal plate trapezoidal in shape, convex distally. Cerci greenish brown dorsally but each segment mostly dark brown ventromedially.

Male unknown.

Etymology. A noun in apposition, the specific epithet refers to the Cofán, indigenous people inhabiting northern Ecuador in the same general areas where the type specimen was obtained. As with many other indigenous peoples from the Amazon, the Cofán are in a constant struggle to preserve their territories and communities as these have been severely reduced within the last decades. The gender is female.