Scaralis (Alphinoides) spectabilis ( Walker, 1858 ) Yanega & Goemans & Dam & Gómez-Marco & Hoddle, 2024

Yanega, Douglas, Goemans, Geert, Dam, Matthew Van, Gómez-Marco, Francesc & Hoddle, Mark, 2024, Description of a new genus of North and Central American planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) with fourteen new species, Zootaxa 5443 (1), pp. 1-53 : 48

Scaralis (Alphinoides) spectabilis ( Walker, 1858) , stat. nov.

Type material. Holotype, female ( BMNH): BRAZIL: Pará; figured by Porion (1994), Plate 4, Fig. 60 .

Notes. While this was the only Alphinoides species previously reported to occur in Mesoamerica ( Panama; Distant, 1887), it seems certain that this record refers instead to Scaralis (A.) inbio , as the type locality of spectabilis is Pará, Brazil. The markings on the thorax of fluvialis, spectabilis , and inbio are very similar, though some features of the wings and abdomens are quite different. Metcalf (1938) placed spectabilis into Poblicia , not having examined the type, and not realizing it was a “calyptoproctine”.

Figures

FIGURES 57–62. Forewings of Scaralina species. (57) S. aethrinsula; (58) S. chapina; (59) S. cristata; (60) S. durango; (61) S. gigantea; (62) S. hawksi.