Curtara DeLong & Freytag, 1972 (Cicadellidae: Iassinae: Gyponini) from Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Southeastern Brazil: description of six new species and new species records Author Laranjeira, Vanessa Cristina Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro & Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Author Gonçalves, Clayton Corrêa 0000-0003-3045-3425 Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro clayton.correa.goncalves@gmail.com Author Takiya, Daniela Maeda 0000-0002-6233-3615 Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro takiya@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2024 2024-05-30 5458 4 547 571 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.4 journal article 298616 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.4 c7645cce-7064-4338-a345-0539d6978472 1175-5326 11548094 A3DFA637-BFD6-4BD1-910B-BD8B663144F0 Curtara ( Curtara ) maculosa sp. nov. ( Figures 40–51 , 96, 97 ) Type locality. Parque Nacional do Itatiaia , Itatiaia , Rio de Janeiro State , Brazil . Diagnosis. Head and thorax ( Figs 96, 97 ) dull yellow with small red punctures. Frons ( Fig. 41 ) with red transverse bands over muscle impressions. Pronotum ( Fig. 40 ) disk and apical half with dark punctures. Forewing ( Fig. 43 ) dull yellow mottled with many dark brown spots and two dark brown longitudinal bands; outer discal cell without inner apical accessory vein. Male sternite VIII ( Fig. 44 ) subtrapezoidal; lateral margins straight, slightly converging towards apex; posterior margin almost straight. Male pygofer ( Fig. 45 ), in lateral view, subquadrangular; posterodorsal margin with a digitiform process with serrated inner margin ( Fig. 46 ). Subgenital plate ( Fig. 47 ), in ventral view, ligulate with apex rounded. Connective ( Fig. 48 ) Y-shaped. Style ( Fig. 49 ), in lateral view, with blade slender and curved dorsally; ventral margin smooth. Aedeagus ( Figs 50, 51 ) atrium with a pair of elongated falcate processes, each subequal to shaft length; shaft elongated and tubular, with an apical pair of bifurcated processes with acute apices, each with ventral ramus long, tubular, and directed ventrally, approximately one-third of length of shaft, and dorsal ramus short, strongly curved anteroventrally. Measurements (mm). Total length. Holotype male: 8.0. Coloration. Head and thorax ( Figs 96, 97 ) dull yellow. Crown ( Fig. 40 ) with small red punctures between midline and ocelli. Ocellus red. Face ( Fig. 41 ) dull yellow or brownish-yellow; frons with red transverse bands over muscle impressions; antennal pits and lorum region adjacent to clypeus, dark brown. Pronotum ( Fig. 40 ) with small red spots near anterior margin; disk and apical half with dark punctures. Mesonotum ( Fig. 40 ) with lateral angles dark brown; several red spots near scutoscutellar suture. Forewing ( Fig. 43 ) dull yellow with many black mottled spots; with two dark brown longitudinal bands, one at basal two-thirds of median anteapical cell and another over inner discal cell extending to basal third of inner anteapical cell; veins yellow, crossveins between anteapical and apical cells dark brown; appendix with two fuscous brown spots, one basal and another apical. Legs dull yellow with dark punctures; metatibia with bases of macrosetae black. Description. Head ( Fig. 40 ) in dorsal view, crown median length approximately two-thirds of interocular width, transocular width about nine-tenths of pronotal humeral width; texture with irregular transverse striae, except oblique between ocelli; anterior margin strongly rounded slightly projected over anterior margin of eyes; ocelli equidistant of anterior margin and posterior margin and equidistant of the midline and eye. Head ( Fig. 41 ), in ventral view, slightly wider than tall; frons 1.3 times longer than wide, texture shagreen; frontogenal suture distant from eye margin 1.5 times the diameter of the antennal scape; antennal ledge carinated and oblique, slightly extended over frons; clypeus 1.3 times longer than maximum width, lateral margins straight and parallel, slightly divergent apically, apex emarginated medially. Head ( Fig. 42 ), in lateral view, with transition crown-face defined, thin, without transverse striae. Pronotum ( Fig. 40 ), in dorsal view, lateral margins as long as length of eye. Forewing ( Fig. 43 ) with m-cu1 anterad to R+M fork; m-cu2 anterad to r-m1; outer discal cell without inner apical accessory vein; appendix well developed, slightly wider than width of first apical cell. Metatarsomere I pecten with 4–5 platellae. Metatarsomere II apex with 2 platellae. FIGURES 40–51. Curtara ( Curtara ) maculosa sp. nov. , male holotype, DZRJ. 40 , Head and thorax, dorsal view. 41 , Head, ventral view. 42 , Head and thorax, lateral view. 43 , Forewing. 44 , Sternite VIII, ventral view. 45 , Pygofer, valve, subgenital plates, and anal tube, lateral view. 46 , Pygofer lobe and anal tube, dorsal view. 47 , Subgenital plate, ventral view. 48 , Style and connective, dorsal view. 49 , Style, lateral view. 50 , Aedeagus, lateral view. 51 , Aedeagus, posterior view. Figs 40–43, scale bars = 1.0 mm. Figs 44–51, scale bars = 0.5 mm. Male terminalia. Sternite VIII ( Fig. 44 ), in ventral view, subtrapezoidal; 1.5 times wider than long; lateral margins straight, slightly converging towards apex; posterolateral margins rounded; posterior margin almost straight. Valve, in ventral view, with anterior margin slightly irregular; posterior margin truncated. Pygofer ( Fig. 45 ), in lateral view, subquadrangular, as long as high; posterodorsal margin with a digitiform process with serrated inner margin ( Fig. 46 ), posteroventral margin rounded; macrosetae dispersed at apical third; apex broadly rounded. Anal tube ( Fig. 45 ) lightly sclerotized. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 45 ), in lateral view, long, extending beyond apex of pygofer; in ventral view, ( Fig. 47 ), ligulate; 3.2 times longer than maximum width; outer lateral margin slightly excavated medially; with long setae at basal third and short setae on apical two-thirds; inner lateral margin widely rounded; apex rounded. Connective ( Fig. 48 ), in dorsal view, Y-shaped, arms robust, twice the length of stem; stem short and expanded apically; dorsal keel absent. Style ( Fig. 48 ), in dorsal view, with outer lobe subquadrangular; in lateral view ( Fig. 49 ), blade long and slender, curved dorsally, slightly narrowing towards apex; ventral margin smooth; apex acute. Aedeagus ( Figs 50, 51 ) with preatrium underdeveloped; dorsal apodeme developed, lateral margins not projected laterally; atrium with a pair of elongated falcate processes, each as long as shaft, curved anterodosally, slightly enlarged at middle third, and apex acute; shaft elongated, tubular, symmetrical, and sinuous, basal portion, in lateral view, curved forming a V, preapical portion with a pair of bifurcated processes with apices acute: ventral ramus long and tubular, approximately one-third of length of shaft, and directed ventrally, and dorsal ramus short, strongly curved anteroventrally. Etymology . The species epithet refers to the black mottled spots spread throughout the forewings. Material examined. Holotype male: “ Brazil , RJ, Itatiaia , PNI\ 04.X.2014 , S 22°23’38.9’’, W\ 44°39’59.7’’\ 2255m , Ponto\ 7, Monteiro et al .”, ( DZRJ ). Taxonomic notes. Curtara ( Curtara ) maculosa sp. nov. differs from other Curtara species by the following set of characteristics: male pygofer ( Figs 45, 46 ) with posterodorsal margin with a digitiform process with serrated inner margin; subgenital plates ( Fig. 47 ), in ventral view, ligulate; connective ( Fig. 48 ) Y-shaped; style ( Fig. 49 ), with blade slender and curved dorsally, with ventral margin smooth; aedeagus ( Figs 50, 51 ) with a pair of elongated falcate atrial processes, shaft with a pair of apical bifurcated processes, each with ventral ramus long and directed ventrally and dorsal ramus short and strongly curved anteroventrally. Curtara ( Curtara ) maculosa sp. nov. was collected at PNI only at 2,255 m a.s.l.