Costanana nupera ( Van Duzee, 1907 ) Domahovski & Cavichioli, 2023

Domahovski, Alexandre C. & Cavichioli, Rodney R., 2023, Eight new species of Costanana DeLong & Freytag (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Gyponini): taxonomic changes, key to males, and description of Metacostana gen. nov., European Journal of Taxonomy 889 (1), pp. 1-53 : 36

Costanana nupera ( Van Duzee, 1907) comb. nov.

Fig. 19

Gypona nupera Van Duzee, 1907: 61 .

Material examined

Holotype JAMAICA • ♀; “ Mandev’le \ Ja. Apr. 06 ”, “ Van Duzee \ Collector”, “California Academy \ of Sciences \ Type Nº. 2327”; CAS 2327 .

Remarks

This species is known based on a single female specimen from Jamaica ( Fig. 19A–D ) and was one of the 16 species not studied in the revision of the genus Gypona ( DeLong & Freytag 1964) . The external morphology and general coloration of Gypona nupera is very similar to that of Costanana cifi sp. nov. ( Fig. 11E–F ) – see remarks on this species – and because of that we decided to transfer this species to Costanana .

Figures

Fig. 19. Costanana nupera (Van Duzee, 1907) comb. nov., holotype, ♀ (CAS 2327). A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Habitus, lateral view. C. Habitus, ventral view. D. Labels.

Fig. 11. Habitus of new species of Costanana DeLong & Freytag, 1972. Left, dorsal view; right, lateral view. A–B. C. alata sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (DZUP 215484). C–D. C. bifida sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (DZUP 215493). E–F. C. cifi sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (DZUP 215484). G–H. C. luzi sp. nov., holotype ♂ (DZUP 215489). Scale bars in mm.