Procollina stigmosa, Sanborn, 2018

Sanborn, Allen F., 2018, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records, Zootaxa 4493 (1), pp. 1-69 : 16-19

Procollina stigmosa n. sp.

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Type material. Holotype. “ PANAMA: Bocas / del Toro Prov. / Pipeline Rd. : 1700’ / 14-V-1993 – Light / RW Flowers ” male ( FSCA). Paratypes. Same data as holotype, two females ( FSCA), one male and one female ( AFSC); “ PANAMA: Veragues Prov. / Santa Fe, Alto Piedra / 16 to 17-VI-2011 850 m / J. Heppner ” one female ( FSCA); “ PANAMA: B.D. Toro / 2.8 rd. mi. N from / Continental Divide / V-27-1993, UV light / A. Gillogly & E. Riley ” two females ( TAMU), two females ( AFSC).

Etymology. The name stigmosa (L. full of marks) is in reference to the infuscation of the fore wings and markings on the body.

Description. Ground color of head and thorax tawny marked with piceous and castaneous, abdomen castaneous and tawny. Tawny is replaced with greenish tawny in some paratypes, suggesting tawny areas are probably green in fresh specimens.

Head. Head wider than mesonotum, tawny, greenish tawny in some paratypes, with transverse piceous band across vertex from anterior to eye extending in a Z-shaped pattern lateral to lateral ocelli and through lateral ocelli, posterior extension into anterior cranial depression and opposing anterior extension, additional spot near posterior margin at level of posterior extension in some paratypes, mark extends anteriorly on midline to enclose median ocellus with lines extending from corners of extension toward piceous supra-antennal plates, transverse mark castaneous laterally and anteriorly and piceous medially in one paratype and reduced in size in another paratype. Piceous drop-shaped mark extending from posteromedial eye, dark castaneous mark posterior to eye. Long golden pile posterior to eye. Ocelli rosaceous, eyes castaneous, tawny in some paratypes. Ventral head tawny, castaneous mark on medial lorum at junction with postclypeus and anteclypeus, medial lorum darker in some paratypes. White pubescence and long golden pile on ventral head. Postclypeus tawny with castaneous lateral margin, ventral side flattened laterally and centrally with thin carina, dorsal surface castaneous. Postclypeus with seven transverse grooves, white pubescence on lateral postclypeus. Anteclypeus tawny with castaneous spot in center, covered with white pubescence. Rostrum tawny with piceous tip reaching to middle of hind trochanters and middle of sternite II with long golden pile on tip. Scape tawny, remaining antennal segments piceous.

Thorax. Dorsal thorax tawny, green or greenish tawny in some paratypes. Pronotum with longitudinal piceous fascia on either side of midline expanding laterally on anterior and posterior ends, fusing with transverse line in anterior fissure and transverse mark in posterior ambient fissure that expands onto pronotal collar, piceous within fissures except medial terminus of paramedian fissure and posterior ambient fissure between fascia on either side of midline and extension from posterior lateral fissures, mark in paramedian fissure extends posteriorly into comma shaped mark turned laterad on disk between paramedian and lateral fissures. Pronotal collar greenish tawny with light castaneous lateral margin, edged in piceous in some paratypes. Mesonotum tawny, greenish tawny in some paratypes, piceous marks in medial anterior and posterior half of submedian sigillae, near anterior and in posterior third of lateral sigillae, piceous elongated triangular mark between anterior submedian and lateral sigillae, J-shaped castaneous mark with long extension fusing along midline between middle of submedian sigillae and hooked portion curving along anterior cruciform elevation and terminating on castaneous scutal depression, mark extends posteriorly onto anterior cruciform elevation in some paratypes, cruciform elevation tawny, greenish tawny and darker medially on X in some paratypes, wing groove tawny, green in some paratypes, with longitudinal castaneous mark on medial margin near anterior. Metanotum tawny, greenish tawny in some paratypes, with piceous anteromedial spot. Silvery pile on mesonotum, laterally and between anterior arms of cruciform elevation, in wing groove, and on posterior metanotum, piceous pile on posterolateral and posterior mesonotum. Ventral thoracic segments tawny, light castaneous marks on lateral anepisternum 2, katepisternum 2, basisternum 2, meron 2, anterolateral katepimeron 2, episternum 3 and trochantin 3, castaneous replaced with piceous in some paratypes, with white pubescence and sparse, long white pile.

Wings. Fore wings and hind wings hyaline with eight and six apical cells respectively. Venation tawny, becoming darker distally, posterior anal vein 2 + 3 with piceous posterior margin. Basal cell clouded. Pterostigma present. Infuscation on base of radius anterior 2 extending across radial crossvein, radius posterior and radiomedial crossvein, medial crossvein, mediocubital crossvein across distal cubitus anterior 1, infuscation on distal wing veins which extend posteriorly onto ambient viens forming an L-shaped mark, longitudinal infuscation within apical cells 2–6, L-shaped marks and longitudinal marks form transverse marks across distal apical cells 4–5, wing margin from wing apex to terminus of cubitus anterior 2, reduced in coverage from entire margin distal to apical cells 1–3 to partial coverage distal to apical cells 4–8 along with outer margin, apical infuscation expands into distal apical cells 1–2. Basal membrane of fore wing gray, darker posteriorly and medially. Venation of hind wing tawny with except greenish cubitus anterior, cubitus posterior, and anal veins 1 and 2. Anal cell 3 and anal cell 2 along anal vein 3 gray, anal cell 1 and 2 along anal vein 2 gray as is anterior cubital cell 2 along cubitus posterior vein. Hind wing infuscation on wing margin between apical cells, expanding into distal apical cell 2, reduced to outer margin posterior to cubital cells and anal cell 1.

Legs. Legs tawny, femora striped with light castaneous, darker in paratypes, distal tibiae, proximal and distal tarsi castaneous. Fore femora with elongated proximal spine adpressed to femur, triangular secondary spine largest and angled, and small angled tertiary spine, all tawny, secondary spine with castaneous on tip. Tibial spurs and comb castaneous.

Operculum. Male operculum with lateral margin angled lateral to long body axis at base, angled mediad at about half its length to smoothly rounded posterolateral margin, straight posterior margin to mediad of meracanthus where it angles anteriorly to rounded medial margin, reaching to middle of sternite II, tawny castaneous with transverse piceous mark across base, covered with white pubescence. Medial margin extends to lateral of hind trochanter. Meracanthus pointed, tawny castaneous with piceous spot on base, reaching to middle of medial margin curve, with sparse white pubescence. Female operculum with curved lateral margin, rounded posterolateral and posterior margins, terminating medially at middle meracanthus and reaching to posterior of sternite II, tawny with castaneous base and margin, covered with thick white pubescence laterally. Female meracanthus pointed, extending beyond posterior margin of operculum, tawny with a castaneous base. Opercula with long golden pile radiating from edge.

Abdomen. Abdomen castaneous with tawny posterior margin, tawny very limited in males, more obvious in females, tawny tinged with green in some paratypes, with piceous pile angled medially from dorsolateral tergite 2, entire tergite 1 in females fusing on the midline of tergite 4 and continuing on midline to tergite 8 which is covered completely, pile bifurcates on tergite 4 crossing dorsolateral tergites to lateral tergite 8, silvery pile between bifurcated piceous pile on tergites 4–7 and laterally on tergites 2–6 becoming narrower and posterior tergites replaced dorsolaterally with piceous pile. Timbal cover recurved, light castaneous exposing timbal, short silvery pile radiating from timbal cover. Timbal with three long and one intercalary ribs, dark spot on timbal plate. Female abdominal segment 9 castaneous dorsally and tawny laterally and ventrally, stigma castaneous, dorsal beak tawny with castaneous tip, with dense, long, golden pile. Posterior margin of abdominal segment 9 sinuate, dark castaneous on posteroventral curve. Sternites tawny, male sternites translucent, epipleurites castaneous anteriorly and tawny posteriorly, light castaneous spot lateral sternite VII, female sternite VII with sinuate posterior margin and medial notch, lateral portion of notch extending beyond lateral posterior margin. Spiracles white, lateral sternites and medial epipleurites with white pubescence.

Genitalia. Male pygofer dark tawny with piceous ventral margin, dorsal beak rounded, covered with short silvery pile, with rounded distal shoulder angled medially. Pygofer basal lobe indistinct, pygofer upper lobes dark tawny, elongated with center depressed along its length and medial bend at two-thirds its length, adpressed to pygofer with rounded terminus. Anal styles tawny marked with castaneous, anal tube tawny. Median uncus lobe tawny medially, castaneous laterally. Lateral uncus lobes castaneous, wrapping around sides of median uncus lobe and meeting along midline posterior to median uncus lobe, curving downward and laterally forming a semicirclar terminus and a triangular notch on posterior midline, basal lateral uncus lobes rounded forming a support around base of aedeagus. Aedeagus tubular, dark castaneous.

Female gonapophyses VIII and IX castaneous, gonapophysis X piceous extending just beyond dorsal beak with radiating golden pile. Gonocoxite IX tawny. Anal styles castaneous with radiating golden pile.

Measurements (mm). N = 2 males or 8 females, mean (range). Length of body: males 27.40 (25.3–29.5), females 24.48 (21.3–26.4); length of fore wing: males 36.65 (34.9–38.4), females 35.56 (33.5–36.8); width of fore wing: males 11.00 (10.5–11.5), females 10.96 (10.2–11.5); length of head: males 3.45 (3.3–3.6), females 3.25 (3.0– 3.4); width of head including eyes: males 8.35 (8.0–8.7), females 8.26 (7.8–8.8); width of pronotum including suprahumeral plates: males 10.95 (10.6–11.3), females 10.94 (9.4–11.8); width of mesonotum: males 7.75 (7.0– 8.5), females 7.91 (7.0–8.7).

Diagnosis. The only other species of Procollina to have a head as wide as or wider than the mesonotum are P. parva Sanborn, 2018a and P. quadrimaculata n. sp. This new species can be distinguished from P. parva by the larger body size (greater than 24 mm in males and 21 mm in females), the infuscation in the fore wings that expands into the wing cells and is absent from the nodal line, the more translucent male abdomen, the posterior margin of the male operculum is transversely oriented until close to the medial margin rather than angling anteriorly at two-thirds distance from the lateral surface, the female operculum is smoothly rounded rather than angulate at the posterolateral margin, the uncus is curved but not a right angle when viewed from the side, the lateral uncal projections appear triangular rather than convex when viewed from the posterior, and lateral sternite VII in the female is sinusoidal rather than lobately produced. It can be distinguished from the other Panamanian species by the heavily bronzed fore wings with multiple small spots of infuscation on the veins in P. biolleyi and the four spots of infuscation in the fore wings, by the smaller body size (less than 24 mm in males and 21 mm in females), the lack of infuscation in the fore wings that expands into the wing cells, the less translucent male abdomen, the curved posterior margin of the male operculum, and the uncus is straight when viewed from the side in P. quadrimaculata n. sp.

Distribution. The species is known only from the type series collected in Panama.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Procollina stigmosa n. sp.: A, holotype male and paratype female habitus; B, holotype male dorsum; C, paratype male timbal; D, paratype male operculum; E, paratype female operculum; F, holotype male lateral view of genitalia; G, holotype male posterior view of genitalia; H, paratype female lateral view of genitalia; I, paratype female ventral view of genitalia. Scale bar: A, 2 cm; B, 5 mm; C–E, 2 mm; F–G, 1 mm; H–I, 2 mm.