Creonus fasciata ( 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 : 284-285

Creonus fasciata ( Fallou, 1890) comb. nov. ( Figs. 9A–C )

Oxygonia fasciata Fallou (1890): 353

Gelastogonia fasciata Fallou — Funkhouser (1927: 315)

Gelastogonia pacifica Fairmaire Equals Gelastogonia fasciata Fallou — Goding (1929: 282)

Gelastogonia fasciata Fallou — Funkhouser (1951: 121)

Ennya fasciata — Sakakibara (1996a: 97)

Material examined: Syntype (photography) of Oxygonia fasciata from ECUADOR, MNHN( EH) 23768 ( MNHN) .

Comments: Sakakibara (1996a) considered that C. fasciata belonged to the genus Ennya , but the complete absence of a dorsal process and the postocular lobe being sub-quadrate places it into the genus Creonus .

This species is closely similar to Creonus lloydi ( Funkhouser, 1914) , with some discrete differences that possibly represent intraspecific variation but probably not. A revision of Creonus is needed, because there are other species ( Flórez-V et al. 2015).

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.