Centronodus gounellei ( Fallou, 1890 ) Montalvo-Salazar & López-García, 2024

Montalvo-Salazar, Jorge L. & López-García, Margarita M., 2024, Contributions on the treehopper genus Ennya Stål, 1866 (Hemiptera: Membracidae) with two new species from Ecuador, Zootaxa 5428 (2), pp. 269-289 : 285

Centronodus gounellei ( Fallou, 1890) comb. nov. ( Figs. 9D–F )

Heliria gounellei Fallou 1890: 354

Telamona gounellei Fallou — Funkhouser (1927: 253)

Gelastogonia gournellei [sic] Fallou— Goding (1929: 282)

Ennya gounellei — Metcalf & Wade (1965: 1026) Material examined: Syntype (photography) of Heliria gounellei from BRAZIL: Bahia, MNHN(EH) 23780 (MNHN).

Comments: This species was formerly described in the genus Heliria Stål, 1867 and then transferred to Telamona Fitch, 1851 ( Funkhouser 1927). Later, Goding moved it to Gelastogonia (1929) and lastly it was referred to Ennya by Metcalf & Wade (1965). It does not belong to the genus Ennya based on the pronotum not concealing the forewings and the absence of carination. Instead, it presents the diagnostic characteristics of the subfamily Centronodinae Deitz, 1975 based the scutellum being concealed medially and forewing vein M with more than three branches reaching the margin ( Dietrich et al. 2001). However, the species does not have reticulate venation which is frequently present in Centronodinae . It is placed in the genus Centronodus Funkhouser, 1930 based on the produced suprahumeral angles ( Barreira & Sakakibara 2001).

Metcalf & Wade (1965) only reported the species from Brazil, although Funkhouser (1951) also reported it from Ecuador.

Figures

FIGURE 9. Creonus fasciata (Oxygonia fasciata syntype): A. frontal view, B. lateral view, C. labels. Centronodus gounellei (Heliria gounellei syntype): D. frontal view, E. lateral view, F. labels. Scale bars: 1 mm (A–B) 2 mm (D–E). Photos by Laurent Fauvre © 2023 Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle.