Nasuconia catarina Sakakibara, 2006

Gonzalez-Mozo, Laura C. & Ware, Jessica L., 2023, Review of Nasuconia Sakakibara, 2006 (Hemiptera: Membracidae) with description of three new species, Zootaxa 5380 (4), pp. 321-340 : 327-328

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( Figures. 2B View FIGURE 2 , 3B View FIGURE 3 , 4B View FIGURE 4 , 6A View FIGURE 6 )

Type species: Nasuconia catarina Sakakibara, 2006: 190 [sp. nov.; description, photograph]

Diagnosis. (1) Frontoclypeus extended ½ of its length beyond suprantennal margin ( Fig. 2B View FIGURE 2 ); (2) preapical area of posterior pronotal process evenly convex; (3) pronotum dark brown; (4) in lateral view, head (vertex and frontoclypeus) obliquely directed forward ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ).

Description. (Modified from Sakakibara 2006). Color and sculpture. Head, pronotum, and legs dark brown, pronotum with yellow longitudinal elevated lines, formed by discontinuous sequences of dots. Head. Vertex without longitudinal lines. Frontoclypeus projected ½ beyond suprantennal margin ( Fig. 2B View FIGURE 2 ). Thorax. Pronotum. In lateral view, preapical area of posterior pronotal process and metopidium evenly convex ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ). Forewing. R vein bifurcate in two branches R 1+2+3 and R 4+5; s crossvein absent. Female. Unknown.

Measurements (mm). Male. Total length 8.60; width of head 2.76; length of head 1.60; distance between apices of humeral angles 3.48.

Material examined. Photograph of the holotype in DZUP, provided by Paulo Alveranga. Holotype label information ( Sakakibara , 2005: 190p) BRASIL. Santa Catarina: “Brusque-SC | XII.1970 | V.O. Becker ” (legs missing, except the left hind leg) ( DZUP).

Comments. As stated by Sakakibara (2006), N. catarina differs from N. lineosa in the following characters: frontoclypeus in N. catarina extended ½ of its length, while in N. lineosa it is extended 1/3 beyond the suprantennal margin. The pronotum is low in both species but the depression behind the humeral angles is less marked in N. catarina ; in lateral view, the pronotum of N. catarina is regularly convex. This species is recorded only from Santa Catarina, Brazil in the city of Brusque.