The tribe Acutalini Fowler (Homoptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae): new genera, new species and some nomenclatural changes

Sakakibara, Albino M

doi:10.1590/S0101-81751997000300015

Abstract

The tribe Acutalini Fowler is redescribed as well as the genera Acutalis Fairmaire, Euritea Stål, and Thrasymedes Kirkaldy. The following new taxa and nomenclatural changes are presented: Thrasymedes mexicana sp.n. (from Mexico, Oaxaca); Bordonia gen.n., with B. venezuelana sp.n. (type-species) (from Venezuela, Portachuelo), B. clypeata sp.n. (from Colombia, Cuesta Boba), B. majuscula sp.n. (from Venezuela, Portachuelo), and Cornutalis gen.n., with C. cauca sp.n. (type-species) (from Colombia, Cauca), and C. validu sp.n. (from Ecuador, Sto. Domingo). Acutalis fusconervosa Fairmaire, 1846 = Horiola venosa Walker, 1858, syn.n.; Euritea munda (Walker, 1858) = Stictolobus nitidus Funkhouser, 1940, syn.n.; Bordonia nigricosta (Goding, 1926), comb.n.; Bordonia virescens (Funkhouser, 1940), comb.n.. One species is transferred to Smiliinae-Ceresini: Tapinolobus curvispina (Walker, 1858), comb.n. (formerly in Thrasymedes) = Tapinolobus fasciatus Sakakibara, 1969, syn.n.; another one is transferred to Darninae-Cymbomorphini: Eumela darnioides (Walker, 1858), comb.n. (formerly in Euritea).

Homoptera; Membracidae; Smiliinae; taxonomy

The tribe Acutalini Fowler (Homoptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae): new genera, new species and some nomenclatural changes¹ 1 Contribuição número 931 do Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná.

Albino M. Sakakibara

Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-990 Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil. Bolsista do CNPq

ABSTRACT

The tribe Acutalini Fowler is redescribed as well as the genera Acutalis Fairmaire, Euritea Stål, and Thrasymedes Kirkaldy. The following new taxa and nomenclatural changes are presented: Thrasymedes mexicana sp.n. (from Mexico, Oaxaca); Bordonia gen.n., with B. venezuelana sp.n. (type-species) (from Venezuela, Portachuelo), B. clypeata sp.n. (from Colombia, Cuesta Boba), B. majuscula sp.n. (from Venezuela, Portachuelo), and Cornutalis gen.n., with C. cauca sp.n. (type-species) (from Colombia, Cauca), and C. validu sp.n. (from Ecuador, Sto. Domingo). Acutalis fusconervosa Fairmaire, 1846 = Horiola venosa Walker, 1858, syn.n.; Euritea munda (Walker, 1858) = Stictolobus nitidus Funkhouser, 1940, syn.n.; Bordonia nigricosta (Goding, 1926), comb.n.; Bordonia virescens (Funkhouser, 1940), comb.n.. One species is transferred to Smiliinae-Ceresini: Tapinolobus curvispina (Walker, 1858), comb.n. (formerly in Thrasymedes) = Tapinolobus fasciatus Sakakibara, 1969, syn.n.; another one is transferred to Darninae-Cymbomorphini: Eumela darnioides (Walker, 1858), comb.n. (formerly in Euritea).

Key words: Homoptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae, taxonomy

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Contribuição número 931 do Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná.

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[1] Ball, E.D. 1905. Some new Homoptera from the South and Southwest. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 18:117-120.

[2] Broomfield, P.S. 1971. A Catalogue of the membracid types (Homoptera: Membracidae) in the British Museum (Natural History). Bull. British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 25 (8):327-386.

[3] Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. London, L. Reeve & Co. Lmtd., 296p.

[4] Caldwell, J.S. 1949. A generic revision of the treehoppers of the tribe Ceresini in America North of Mexico, based on a study of the male genitalia. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 98 (3234):491-521.

[5] Deitz, L.L. 1975. Classification of the higher categories of the New World treehoppers (Homoptera,Membracidae). North Carolina Agr. Exp. Sta. Tech. Bull. 225:1-177.

[6] Fairmaire, L.M.H. 1846. Revue de la tribu des Membracides. Ann. Soc. Ent. France 4:235-320.

[7] Fowler, W.W. 1895. Order Rhynchota; Suborder Hemiptera - Homoptera. (cont.). Biol. Centr. Amer. 2:89-112.

[8] Funkhouser, W.D. 1927. General Catalogue of the Hemiptera. Fase. 1. Membracidae. Raleigh, North Carolina State College, 581 p.

[9] ______. 1940. New Peruvian Membracidae (Homoptera). Jour. N.Y. Ent. Soc. 48:275-293.

[10] Godino, F.W. 1926. New genera and species of Membracidae (Homoptera). Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 52:103-110.

[11] Kirkaldy, G.W. 1904. Bibliographical and nomenclatorial notes on the Hemiptera. No. 2. The Entomologist 37:279-283.

[12] Kopp, D.D. & T.R. Yonke. 1973. The treehoppers of Missouri: Part 2. Subfamily Smiliinae; Tribes Acutalini, Ceresini, and Polyglyptini (Homoptera: Membracidae). Jour. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 46 (2):233-276.

[13] Kopp, D.D. & T.R. Yonke. 1979. A taxonomic review of the tribe Ceresini (Homoptera: Membracidae). Miscell. Publ. Ent. Soc. Amer. 11 (2):1-97.

[14] Metcalf, Z.P. & V. Wade. 1965. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Membracoidea. Sec. 1-2. Raleigh, North Carolina State University, 1552p.

[15] Sakakibara, A.M. 1969. As espécies brasileiras de Stictolobus Metcalfe descrição de um novo gênero correlato (Homoptera -Membracidae). Rev. Brasil. Biol. 29 (4):589-600.

[16] Say, T. 1830. Description of new North American Hemipterous insects, belonging to the first family of the section Homoptera of Latreille. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci . Phil. 6: 235-244.

[17] Stål, C. 1862. Bidrag till Rio Janeiro-traktens Hemipter-fauna. II. Ofversigt Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Förhandl. 3 (6):1-75.

[18] ______. 1864. Hemiptera Mexicana enumeravit speciesque novas descripsit. Stett. Ent. Ztg. 25:49-86.

[19] ______. 1867. Bidrag till Hemipterernas Systematik. Ofvers. Kongl. Vetensk. Förhand. 7:491-560.

[20] ______. 1869. Hemiptera Fabriciana. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 8:18-58.

[21] Tsai, J.H. & D.D. Kopp. 1980. Life history, morphology, and taxonomy of Acutalis tartarea (Say) (Homoptera: Membracidae).

[22] Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London, British Museum, Part 2, p.261-636.

[23] ______. 1858. Homoptera. Insecta saundersiana; or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq.. London, 117p.