Scopogonalia echinura Young, 1977

Leal, Afonso Henrique, Creão-Duarte, Antonio José & Mejdalani, Gabriel, 2016, Taxonomic review of Scopogonalia Young, 1977 (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini) with description of six new species, Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 50 (23), pp. 1513-1542 : 1529

Scopogonalia echinura Young, 1977

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Material examined

One male and one female: ‘ Goiânia – GO\ 30/ X/2000 \ B . Silva col .’ ( DZUP); one male, same data, except: ‘ 06/ XI/ 2000 ’ ( DZUP); one male, same data, except: ‘ 20/ XI/ 2000 ’ ( DZUP); one female, same data, except: ‘ 13/ XI/ 2000 ’ ( DZUP); one male, same data, except: ‘ 27/ XII/ 2000 ’ ( DZUP); one male, same data, except: ‘ 06/ XI/ 2001 ’ ( DZUP); one male: ‘CPo . [Campo] GRANDE MT [nowadays MS, Mato Grosso do Sul]\ Brasil – XI 1952 \ M . Alvarenga’ ( DZUP); one male: ‘ Tabuleiro, Res . Biol. [Reserva Biológica] Guaribas,\ Paraíba, Brasil \ Rede de arrasto\ 06 .IX .2010\ Creão & Afonso [Leal]’ ( DSEC); one male and one female: ‘ BRASIL: Paraíba \ Mamanguape , REBIO [Reserva Biológica]\ Guaribas . Area 1\ Sweep . 01. Mar. 2012 \ A. H. Leal leg’. ( DSEC).

Comment

Scopogonalia echinura had been previously recorded from Santa Elena de Uairén in south Venezuela ( Young 1977) and from Vichada department in east Colombia ( Freytag and Sharkey 2002), being here newly recorded from central and northeast Brazil. The original description ( Young 1977, fig. 439f) does not mention the pair of tiny dorsolateral dentiform processes at the apex of the aedeagus observed in our studied specimens ( Figure 5 ).

Figures

Figure 5. Scopogonalia echinura Young, 1977. Aedeagus and paraphyses, lateral view. Arrow indicates the pair of processes that were not described or illustrated by Young (1977). Scale bar: 0.5 mm.