Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 848 No. 1: 4 Feb. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-02-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.848.1.1
Page range: 1–9
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new species of the Neotropical leafhopper genus Scoposcartula (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini)

Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-990, Curitiba, PR, Brasil
Hemiptera Cicadellinae Scoposcartula talitae Scoposcartula furcifera sharpshooter taxonomy morphology Brazil

Abstract

The new leafhopper species Scoposcartula talitae and S. furcifera are described and illustrated. Scoposcartula talitae is based on specimens from southeastern Brazil (Espírito Santo State) and can be distinguished from other species of the genus by the crown and pronotum dark brown to black, the latter with a pair of white maculae, and by the forewings dark red with three elongate transverse white maculae. Scoposcartula furcifera is based on specimens from northeastern Brazil (Bahia State) and can be recognized by the presence of a dark brown to black inverted Y-shaped macula on the pronotum-scutellum and by its asymmetrical paraphysis, broadened medially and with the apex acute. With the addition of these two new taxa, the Neotropical leafhopper genus Scoposcartula Young contains 14 species, all occurring in Brazil.

References

  1. Cavichioli, R.R. & Mejdalani, G. (1996) Scoposcartula Young: descrições de uma espécie nova e da fêmea de S. flavovittata Mejdalani, e redescrição de S. concinna (Perty) comb. n. (Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Cicadellini). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 13, 963–971.

    Hamilton, K.G.A. (1981) Morphology and evolution of the rhynchotan head (Insecta: Hemiptera, Homoptera). Canadian Entomologist, 113, 953–974.

    Mejdalani, G. (1992) Uma nova espécie de Scoposcartula Young, 1977 do sudeste do Brasil (Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Cicadellinae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 52, 231–234.

    Mejdalani, G. (1998) Morfologia externa dos Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae): comparação entre Versigonalia ruficauda (Walker) (Cicadellini) e Tretogoniacribrata Melichar (Proconiini), com notas sobre outras espécies e análise da terminologia. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 15, 451–544.

    Melichar, L. (1932) Monographie der Cicadellinen. IV. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 27, 285–328.

    Oman, P.W. (1949) The Nearctic leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). A generic classification and check list. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 3, 1–253.

    Signoret, V. (1855) Revue iconografique des Tettigonides. Annales de la Societé Entomologique de France, 3, 765–836, pls 23–24.

    Young, D.A. (1977) Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Part 2, New World Cicadellini and the genus Cicadella. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 239, 1–1135.