Cardioscarta, Melichar, 1932

Pecly, Nathalia H., Quintas, Victor, Cavichioli, Rodney R. & Mejdalani, Gabriel, 2018, A new species of Cardioscarta (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini) from the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil and key to species of the genus, Zootaxa 4527 (1), pp. 124-130 : 129

Key to species of Cardioscarta (updated from Young 1977 and Cavichioli & Mejdalani 2016)

1. Forewing with three or four transverse dark brown to black stripes............................................... 2

1’. Forewing without transverse stripes or at most with one transverse dark brown to black stripe at level of apex of clavus..... 4

2. Pronotum with two large pale orange spots narrowly separated medially ( Ecuador, Bolivia)............. C. electa Melichar

2’. Pronotum without pale spots............................................................................. 3

3. Forewing with three transverse dark brown to black stripes, none located at base ( Colombia, Peru, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, Bolivia, Brazil)......................................................... C. quadrifasciata (Linnaeus)

3’. Forewing with four transverse dark brown to black stripes, one located at base ( Peru, Bolivia)................................................................................................. C. splendida Cavichioli & Mejdalani

4. Forewing yellowish-orange with black markings at apex; paraphyses absent ( Brazil).............. C. flavifrons (Signoret)

4’. Forewing not as above; paraphyses present.................................................................. 5

5. Forewing ( Fig. 20 ) with white markings ( Brazil)............................................. C. albigutta (Walker)

5’. Forewing without white markings......................................................................... 6

6. Forewing ( Figs. 3 , 19 ) dark brown to black with two large orange areas, one extended from basal portion of corium to distal portions of discal cells and another covering most of clavus, or with single large orange area on basal two-thirds ( Brazil).......................................................................................... C. aurantia sp. nov.

6’. Forewing yellow or orange with longitudinal dark brown to black markings........................................ 7

7. Forewing ( Fig. 21 ) with claval sulcus and commissural margin black ( Brazil)......... C. vernicosa (Le Peletier & Serville)

7’. Forewing with single narrow costal black stripe ( Brazil)........................................ C. sponsa Melichar

Figures

FIGURES 19–21. Body of Cardioscarta species in dorsal view (antennae and legs not depicted). 19, C. aurantia sp. nov., male holotype, length 10.8 mm. 20, C. albigutta (Walker, 1851), female from Viçosa, state of Minas Gerais (USNM), length 11.2 mm. 21, C. vernicosa (Le Peletier & Serville, 1825), female from Serra dos Órgãos, state of Rio de Janeiro (NHM), length 11.6 mm. Figures 20 and 21 modified from Wilson et al. (2009).

FIGURES 1–7. Cardioscarta aurantia sp. nov., male. 1, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsal view. 2, head and prothorax, lateral view. 3, forewing. 4, pygofer, lateral view. 5, subgenital plate, ventral view. 6, connective, style, and paraphyses, dorsal view. 7, aedeagus, lateral view.