Cardioscarta, Melichar, 1932

Cavichioli, Rodney Ramiro & Mejdalani, Gabriel, 2016, A new species of the sharpshooter genus Cardioscarta (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Bolivia and Peru, Zoologia (e 20150110) 33 (1), pp. 1-6 : 5

Key to species of Cardioscarta (updated from YOUNG 1977)

1. Forewings with three or four transverse dark brown to black stripes ( Figs. 1-2 ) .................................................................2

1’. Forewings without transverse stripes or at most with one transverse dark brown to black stripe at level of apex of clavus.. 4

2. Pronotum with two large pale orange spots narrowly separated medially ( Ecuador, Bolivia) ...................... C. electa Melichar

2’. Pronotum without pale spots ( Figs. 1-2 ) .............................3

3. Forewings with three transverse dark brown to black stripes, none located at base (Colombia, Peru, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, Bolivia, Brazil).. C. quadrifasciata (Linnaeus)

3’. Forewings with four transverse dark brown to black stripes, one located at base ( Figs. 1-2 ) (Peru, Bolivia)....................... ............................................................. C. splendida sp. nov.

4. Forewings yellowish-orange with black markings at apex; paraphyses absent (Brazil) ................ C. flavifrons (Signoret)

4’. Forewings not as above; paraphyses present .......................5

5. Forewings opaque, black, with white markings (Brazil)......... ............................................................. C. albigutta (Walker)

5 ’. Forewings yellow or orange with longitudinal dark brown to black markings ....................................................................6

6. Forewings with claval suture and commissural margin black (Brazil) ............................ C. vernicosa (Le Peletier & Serville)

6’. Forewings with only a narrow costal black stripe (Brazil)..... ................................................................ C. sponsa Melichar

Figures

Figures 1-8. Cardioscarta splendida sp. nov.: (1) habitus of the male holotype from Bolivia, length 12.4 mm; (2) habitus of a female from Peru (see remarks), length 13.3 mm; (3-8) male genitalia: (3) pygofer and subgenital plate, lateral view (with scale bar); (4) valve, subgenital plates, and pygofer, ventral view; (5) connective and styles, dorsal view (a detached portion of the aedeagal preatrium is at the apex of the connective stalk, arrowed); (6-8) aedeagus and anal tube: (6) in lateral, (7) ventral, and (8) anterior views (damaged preatrium is arrowed in Fig. 6). Abbreviations: (ASH) aedeagal shaft; (LBP) longer basal process; (SBP) shorter basal process. Scale bar: 1 mm.