Noabennarella costaricensis, Holzinger, Werner E. & Kunz, Gernot, 2006

Holzinger, Werner E. & Kunz, Gernot, 2006, A new genus and species of Bennarellini from Costa Rica (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), Zootaxa 1353, pp. 53-61 : 57-61

Noabennarella costaricensis spec. nov.

Type material: Holotype ♂: Costa Rica: Piedras Blancas National Park, Esquinas Rainforest Lodge [8°41’54’’N, 83°12’16’’W, 130 m a.s.l.], May 21, 2006, light trap in primary rain forest, Gernot Kunz leg., in coll. of the Institute for Faunistics and Animal Ecology, Graz. Paratype: 1 ♂, same location as holotype, May 24, 2006, in coll. G. Kunz.

Description

Body length: 3.2 mm, 5.9–6.0 mm incl. wings.

Coloration: Head and thorax dorsally straw­coloured, ventrally lighter. Abdomen dorsally dark brownish. Body partially covered with wax. Lateral keels of frons inside and outside with blackish spot ( Figs 9, 10 ). A small, comma­shaped blackish spot surrounds the lateral ocellus and progresses apically. Legs straw­coloured. Wings opaque, veins straw­coloured, cells creamy white with fuscous markings in a reticulate pattern. With a large blackish spot at apex of Sc and additional dark spots in centres of apical cells and at apices of veins ( Fig. 1 ).

Morphology of head, thorax, abdomen as described for genus (see Figs 9, 10 , 11–14 , 23 , 24, 26).

Shaft of aedeagus with five movable, more or less straight spines: one ventromedian spine directed to left, and four apical spines: one very long on right side, one small and broader on left side, and two long and slender spines ventrally ( Figs 16, 17 ). Genital styles spoonshaped, apical part with smaller truncate lobe medially and broader lateral lobe laterally, latter produced into a roundish tip ( Fig. 18 ).

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 10. 7, Amazobenna reticulata Penny, head of holotype, lateral aspect (photo: A. Henriques); 8, same, frontal aspect (photo: A. Henriques); 9, Noabennarella costaricensis spec. nov., head, lateral aspect; 10, same, frontal aspect.

FIGURES 1 – 2. Habitus of Noabennarella costaricensis spec. nov., lateral and dorsal view, with abdominal appendages clearly visible.

FIGURES 11 – 15. 11, Noabennarella costaricensis spec. nov., hind wing; 12, same, fore wing; 13, same, head in frontal aspect; 14, same, head and thorax in dorsal aspect; 15, Bennarella bicoloripennis Muir, head and thorax in dorsal aspect. Scale bar: 1 mm.

FIGURES 23 – 26. 23, Noabennarella costaricensis spec. nov., hind leg; 24, same, apex of tibia of hind leg; 25, Noabennarella spec., inner female genitalia; 26, Noabennarella spec., habitus of female.

FIGURES 16 – 22. 16, Noabennarella costaricensis spec. nov., aedeagus, left lateral view; 17, same, right lateral view; 18, genital style, inner maximum view; 19, male genital and anal segment (aedeagus and styli omitted), left lateral view; 20, ventromedian process of male genital segment, ventral view; 21, male anal segment, caudal aspect; 22, same, dorsal aspect. Scale bar: 0.25 mm for Figs 16 – 18, 0.5 mm for Figs 19 – 22.