Amberana Distant, 1908

Bucher, Manon, Bouteille, Emilien & Cesne, Maxime Le, 2024, Malagasy spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopidae), a taxonomic review of genera from Madagascar, European Journal of Taxonomy 935, pp. 166-202 : 171-172

Genus Amberana Distant, 1908

Fig. 3H

Amberana Distant, 1908: 313 .

Dauphina Distant, 1908: 314 (synonymy by Lallemand 1949).

Nesaulax Jacobi, 1917: 541 syn. nov.

Amberana – Soulier-Perkins & Kunz 2012: 5–36 , figs 1–122.

Type species

Amberana elongata Distant, 1908 .

Synthetic description

Amberana is an endemic genus from Madagascar described by Distant in 1908. It was revised by Soulier-Perkins & Kunz in 2012. A synthesis based on their descriptions of this genus is presented below:

HEAD. Head as wide as long between eyes, anterior margin with carina. Median part of vertex strongly curved, flattened vertically on lower part to form triangle just above delimitation of postclypeus. Ocelli close to each other and separated by small carina. Postclypeus convex, striated laterally with triangular dimple just below frons-postclypeus suture. Middle part of postclypeus can be strongly marked or not by sulciform furrow. Rostrum reaching mesocoxae.

THORAX. Anterior margin of pronotum straight or slightly rounded, three small concavities present on each side along anterior margin. Scutellum a bit longer than wide. Hindlegs with one spine on metatibiae.

MALE GENITALIA. Male genitalia with sterno-lateral plates and small parameres not exceeding the pygofer margin ( Distant 1908; Soulier-Perkins & Kunz 2012).

Distribution ( Fig. 3H )

Endemic genus of Madagascar.

Number of species: 23.

Amberana attiei Soulier-Perkins, 2012

Amberana bergevini ( Lallemand, 1920)

Amberana boucomonti ( Lallemand, 1920)

Amberana brolemanni ( Lallemand, 1920)

Amberana dimidiata ( Signoret, 1860)

Amberana elongata Distant, 1908

Amberana fissurata Jacobi, 1917

Amberana harandranomasina Le Cesne & Soulier-Perkins, 2022

Amberana humeralis ( Fallou, 1890)

Amberana kraussi Synave, 1957

Amberana lemuria ( Distant, 1908)

Amberana limbata Lallemand, 1955

Amberana marginata ( Fallou, 1890)

Amberana maromandiana Lallemand, 1949

Amberana melanops ( Jacobi, 1917)

Amberana noualhieri ( Lallemand, 1920)

Amberana ouvrardi Soulier-Perkins, 2012

Amberana pascali Soulier-Perkins, 2012

Amberana peyrierasi Soulier-Perkins & Le Cesne, 2022

Amberana pygmaea Schmidt, 1920

Amberana sexguttata (Melichar, 1915)

Amberana uncinata Jacobi, 1917

Figures

Fig. 3. Amberana vittipennis (Bergroth, 1894), ♂, (MNHN(EH) 24523). A. Dorsal view. B. Lateral view. C. Frontal view. D. Labels. E. Male terminalia in lateral view, pygofer, anal tube, aedeagus, left paramere and left subgenital plate. F. Aedeagus. G. Left paramere. H. Distribution map (white dots correspond to all occurrences of species of Amberana in Madagascar; the black dot refers only to A. vittipennis). Scale bars: A–C = 1 mm.