Poppea colombiana, Sakakibara, Albino Morimasa & Evangelista, Olívia, 2008

Sakakibara, Albino Morimasa & Evangelista, Olívia, 2008, New species and nomenclatural notes in the Ceresini (Hemiptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae), Zootaxa 1702, pp. 52-60 : 57

Poppea colombiana sp. nov.

Figs. 2 , 6 , 10

Diagnosis. Color light castaneous in front, brownish posteriorly; suprahumeral horns long, conical, with apices slightly curved backwards; median swelling ovoid, rounded dorsally; posterior process strongly inflated in transverse bulb with 3 spines posteriorly, the median spine longer than the two lateral spines.

Measurements (mm). Female. Total length: 8.17; pronotal length 7.42; tegmina length 7.00; width between humeral angles 2.33; width between apices of suprahumeral horns 4.17; maximum width between apices of posterior process 3.08; head width 2.32; head length 1.0 4.

Description. Holotype female. Head, thorax, and front legs, light castaneous; eyes red carmine; pronotum light castaneous, gradually darkened posteriorly, then brown on posterior process; mid and posterior legs, and abdomen, castaneous; tegmina hyaline, very weakly brownish, slightly infuscate at internal angle.

Head triangular, about 2x wider than long, well sculptured, smooth and brilliant, covered with sparse, long, and erect hairs. Eyes globose, almost pedunculate. Ocelli large, equidistant from each other and to eyes, located just bellow transocular line. Vertex with superior margin arched; suprantennal ledges short, rounded. Postclypeus diamond-shaped, apex ovoid, extended 2/3 its length bellow margins of suprantennal ledges.

Pronotum well-developed, weakly punctured, quite smooth and shining, with hairs similar to head. Metopidium convex. Suprahumeral horns strong, conical, in wide open V, with apices slightly curved backwards; length from base to apex, in frontal view, almost equal width of head. Median swelling ovoid rising well above metopidium and at almost same level as posterior process. Posterior process with large transverse bulb, more or less trilobed, formed by fusion of basal swellings of 3 posterior spines; lateroposterior spines short, decurved, median spine slender, about 2x as long, parallel to internal margin of tegmina.

Male. Unknown.

Holotype female. COLOMBIA: Bolivar. “S. A., Colombia | Bolivar, Batatal | 1938–1939 | coll. M. Althén-Dahl” (LUND). Paratype: 1 female, with the same label data as holotype. (DZUP).

Comments. Poppea colombiana sp. nov. is similar to P. capricornis Fowler , with large suprahumeral horns and the posterior pronotal process swollen basally. It differs, however, in the coloration, being almost entirely brownish, without yellow areas.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. New Ceresini species, lateral views: 1. Cyphonia andina sp. nov., holotype, male. 2. Poppea colombiana sp. nov., holotype, female. 3. P. turrialbae sp. nov., holotype, male. 4. P. pallida sp. nov., holotype, male.

FIGURES 5 – 8. New Ceresini species, frontal views: 5. Cyphonia andina sp. nov., holotype, male. 6. Poppea colombiana sp. nov., holotype, female. 7. P. turrialbae sp. nov., holotype, male. 8. P. pallida sp. nov., holotype, male.

FIGURES 9 – 12. New Ceresini species, dorsal views: 9. Cyphonia andina sp. nov., holotype, male. 10. Poppea colombiana sp. nov., holotype, female. 11. P. turrialbae sp. nov., holotype, male. 12. P. pallida sp. nov., holotype, male.