Ennya funkhouseri ( Goding, 1928 ), 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 : 279

Ennya funkhouseri ( Goding, 1928) stat. rev. ( Figs. 6H–I , 10A )

Gelastogonia funkhouseri Goding, 1928: 138

Ennya funkhouseri Goding — Metcalf & Wade (1965: 1026)

Ennya rufomaculata Fallou Equals Ennya funkhouseri Goding — Sakakibara (1996a: 95)

Material examined: Syntype (photograph) male Gelastogonia funkhouseri from ECUADOR: Huigra ( USNM) .

Comments: Sakakibara (1996a) considered Ennya funkhouseri as the junior synonym of E. rufomaculata but the latter does not belong to the genus Ennya (see below). Ennya funkhouseri cannot be placed in Gelastogonia because the pronotum lacks reticulate carinae and the dorsal process is not foliaceous ( Sakakibara 1996a).

Ennya funkhouseri differs from its congeners in having the dorsal process trapezoidal and longer than high with the anterior and posterior vertex rounded. This species is similar to E. chlorizans stat. rev. but the anterior vertex is not acute and not higher than the posterior vertex.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Hille ecuadorensis Fowler lectotype: A. frontal view, B. lateral view, C. labels. Gelastogonia funkhouseri Goding syntype male: D. frontal view, E. lateral view, F. labels. Gelastogonia gibbera Goding syntype female: G. frontal view, H. lateral view, I. labels. Photographs by (A–C) © 2023 Natural History Museum Vienna, Hemiptera Image Collection / H. Bruckner, (D–F) © 2009 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution / Thomas J. Henry, EZID, (G–I) © 2023 American Museum of Natural History / Ruth Salas.

FIGURE 10. A. Locality records for the species of Ennya with known distribution in Ecuador (Red star: E. lamariela, Yellow star: E. allkukiru, Black point: E. chlorizans, Pink point: E. funkhouseri, Blue point: E. chrysura, Orange point: E. sobria, Gray point: E. scaromizzonoi), B. Forest patch in Pillaro, C–D. La Mariela forest in Moraspungo (Photo by David Brito).