Scaralis (Alphinoides) semilimpida ( Walker, 1851 ) Yanega & Goemans & Dam & Gómez-Marco & Hoddle, 2024

Yanega, Douglas, Goemans, Geert, Dam, Matthew Van, Gómez-Marco, Francesc & Hoddle, Mark, 2024, Description of a new genus of North and Central American planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) with fourteen new species, Zootaxa 5443 (1), pp. 1-53 : 48

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scientific name	Scaralis (Alphinoides) semilimpida ( Walker, 1851 )
status	stat. nov.

Treatment

Scaralis (Alphinoides) semilimpida ( Walker, 1851) View in CoL , stat. nov.

( Figs 4 View FIGURES 4–5 , 7 View FIGURE 7 )

Type material. Holotype, ( BMNH): BRAZIL: Amazonas.

Additional material. BRAZIL: Amazonas; additional specimen figured by Porion (1994), Plate 4, Fig. 58 View FIGURES 57–62 ; FRENCH GUIANA: no data, 1F ( UCRC).

Notes. This species has the abdomen, and the base of the hindwings, red, unlike the other Alphinoides species, or any other species of Scaralis we have examined. There is also a slightly paler band in the middle of the pigmented region of the forewing, rather than having the entire basal area dark with contrasting veins, as in the other Alphinoides examined. In the molecular analysis by Urban & Cryan, 2009, semilimpida was placed as sister taxon to Matacosa miscella , and more distantly related to Scaralina (as “ Alphina glauca ”). The specimen from French Guiana ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 ) has the dark thoracic markings much reduced compared to the holotype, but we assume this indicates intraspecific variation rather than a different taxon.

References

Porion, T. (1994) Fulgoridae 1. Catalogue illustre de la faune. Sciences Nat, Venette, France. 71 pp., 16 pls.

Urban, J. M. & Cryan, J. R. (2009) Entomologically famous, evolutionarily unexplored: The first phylogeny of the lanternfly family Fulgoridae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 50 (3), 471 - 484.

Walker, F. (1851) List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Parts II & III. British Museum, London, pp. (4) + 261 - 536 & pp. (4) + 637 - 907.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Antenna of Scaralis (Alphinoides) nr. semilimpida; arista not visible.

FIGURES 4–5. Versteifung, underside of left forewing, viewed from posteroventral angle in both photos, so wing base is to the left; (4) Scaralis (Alphinoides) semilimpida; (5) Scaralina obrienae.

FIGURES 57–62. Forewings of Scaralina species. (57) S. aethrinsula; (58) S. chapina; (59) S. cristata; (60) S. durango; (61) S. gigantea; (62) S. hawksi.