Scaralina durango Yanega, 2024

Yanega, Douglas, Goemans, Geert, Dam, Matthew Van, Gómez-Marco, Francesc & Hoddle, Mark, 2024, Description of a new genus of North and Central American planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) with fourteen new species, Zootaxa 5443 (1), pp. 1-53 : 35

Scaralina durango Yanega , sp. nov.

( Figs 17 , 30 , 45 , 60 )

Etymology. This species is named for its provenance, and treated as a noun in apposition.

Diagnosis. This species is most similar to aethrinsula , with which it shares the unmodified female tergum 6 that would have excluded it from consideration as a member of the “ Calyptoproctina ”, but with some similarities also to cristata , as the pronotal carina is somewhat stronger than is typical, and the forewings are medially maculated. The face is very dark; the forewings are relatively heavily maculated, especially medially, with some orange tint to the translucent basal area; the hindwing bases are reddish-orange; the emargination of the female anal tube is more nearly semicircular than most species.

Description (female only; male unknown). Head ( Figs 30 , 45 ). Many features as in aethrinsula , but lower frons and clypeus much darker.

Thorax ( Fig. 45 ). Many features as in aethrinsula , but pronotal medial ridge more prominent, mesonotum darker laterally; dorsal setae slightly longer.

Wings ( Figs 17 , 60 ). Forewings with membrane in several medial cells black and nearly opaque, though not quite as extensive as in cristata , and with somewhat more visible brownish-orange pigmentation to membrane near base; venation much like cristata , if not slightly coarser, generally not as finely anastomosing as in aethrinsula , especially not in the anal portion. Costal crossveins numerous, close, highly anastomosing, highly reticulate, more similar to aethrinsula . Veins and venules often outlined in black, though not quite as often as in cristata . Hindwing bases reddish-orange.

Abdomen ( Fig. 17 ). Nearly identical to aethrinsula , though possibly with weaker medial pigmentation, tergum 6 unmodified.

Type material. Holotype, female: MEXICO: Durango: “ Coscomate Camps , 2450m

23°42’1”N 105°34’9”W, 25.vii.2019 D.C. Hawks MV” ( UCRC ENT 533958 , at UCRC) .

Distribution. So far known only from the type locality in western Durango.

Figures

FIGURES 13–20. Habitus photos of Scaralina species. (13) S. aethrinsula (male); (14) S. chapina (male); (15) S. cristata (male); (16) S. marmorata (female); (17) S. durango (type female); (18) S. gigantea (type female); (19) S. hawksi (female, crushed somewhat); (20) S. metcalfi (male).

FIGURES 27–35. Faces of Scaralina species. (27) S. aethrinsula; (28) S. chapina; (29) S. cristata; (30) S. durango; (31) S. gigantea; (32) S. hawksi; (33) S. marmorata; (34) S. metcalfi; (35) S. monzoni.

FIGURES 42–50. Heads and nota of Scaralina species. (42) S. aethrinsula; (43) S. chapina; (44) S. cristata; (45) S. durango; (46) S. gigantea; (47) S. hawksi; (48) S. marmorata; (49) S. metcalfi; (50) S. monzoni.

FIGURES 57–62. Forewings of Scaralina species. (57) S. aethrinsula; (58) S. chapina; (59) S. cristata; (60) S. durango; (61) S. gigantea; (62) S. hawksi.