Title
A new species of the sharpshooter genus Onega Distant, 1908 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini) from Ecuador and Peru
Date Issued
01 October 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia
Abstract
Onega comprises nine valid species distributed in South American countries, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, commonly at high altitudes. The genus has as diagnostic characteristics the transition crown-frons with transversal carina; crown and superior portion of frons with concavities; pronotum wider than transocular width of head; and paraphysis, when present, as a median esclerite. The present paper describes Onega musa sp. nov., from Ecuador and Peru, which can be distinguished from other Onega species by: body mostly yellow, with brown maculae distributed on dorsum; posterior margin of male pygofer serrate, with long microsetae on the basiventral margin; aedeagus with shaft bisinuate with dorsal acute preapical process; female sternite VII with posterior margin slightly convex; and first valvula of ovipositor with 38 noncontiguous teeth. Intraspecific morphological variations are discussed.
Start page
324
End page
327
Volume
62
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Publication version
Version of Record
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85054457369
Source
Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
ISSN of the container
0085-5626
Sponsor(s)
We are grateful to J. Grados (MUSM) for the collection of these interesting specimens in Peru. C. Young and J. Rawlins (CMNH) made available material from Ecuador. ALDF received undergraduate scientific initiation fellowships from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico's (CNPq) PROTAX and PIBIC programs. DMT is a research productivity fellow of CNPq (proc. 313677/2017–4) and a Jovem Cientista do Nosso Estado fellow from Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ, proc. E-26/202.786/2015).
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