Onega fassli Yo

Takiya, Daniela Maeda & Cavichioli, Rodney Ramiro, 2004, A review of the Neotropical sharpshooter genus Onega Distant, 1908 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini), Zootaxa 718, pp. 1-19 : 7

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( Fig. 1 C)

Notes. The color pattern of Colombian material of this species ( Fig. 1 C) is considerably different from that originally described and from other specimens from Ecuador and Paraguay studied herein (which agree well with the description). In these Colombian specimens, the crown and pronotum are mostly bright red with small irregular tan areas, instead of mostly tan with red markings (as originally described) and forewings with large dark brown stripe along the commissural margin of clavus and more extensive red apical area extending onto apical and most of anteapicals cells ( Fig. 1 C). All specimens however, have indistinguishable male and female genitalia from those described and illustrated in the original description ( Young 1977: 289).

Material examined. Male and female, “ COLOMBIA, Cundimarca Dpt. \ Carpanta Res. 45.8 km E. Bogotá \ X=998.850, Y=1’045.750, BL trap \ 16.Aug.1988, E. A. Lisowski”, INHS (new departamental record); female, “ ECUADOR: Napo Prov. \ Santa Barbara \ Cerro Mirador \ elev. 2800 meters \ 10 April 1986 \ Stuart McKamey”, LACM (new country record); male and female, “ Paraguay \ Sapucay \ G. Morewood. \ 1919­76 ”, BMNH (new country record).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Dorsal habitus of species of Onega Distant. (A) O. avella Distant, male, LACM; (B) O. bracteata Young, male, DZRJ; (C) O. fassli Young, male, INHS; (D) O. freytagi sp. nov., male holotype, UKL; (E) O. krameri sp. nov., male holotype, USNM; (F) O. orphne sp. nov., male holotype, USNM; (G) O. sanguinicollis (Latreille) comb. nov., female, NHMW; (H) O. stipata (Walker), male, OSU. Scale bar = 2.0 mm.