Amberana Distant 1908
Creators: name: Soulier-Perkins, Adeline
name: Kunz, Gernot
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cercopidae
Amberana

description: Genus Amberana Distant, 1908
Amberana Distant, 1908: 313.
Type species: Amberana elongata Distant, 1908, by original designation and monotypy.
Description. On dorsal view, head larger than long between eyes, anterior margin can be carinated. Median part of vertex often elevated, a small median carina can occur and separates ocelli that are close together. Postclypeus convex, striated laterally, bearing a triangle dimple just below frons level, which is characteristic for this genus, and a sulciform mark on its middle that can be strongly marked or not. Rostrum reaching mesocoxa. Pronotum with anterior margin straight or slightly rounded anteriorly, three small concavities along it, on each side. Scutellum generally slightly longer than wide with 3 concavities, two small along anterior margin and one larger, placed centrally. Tegmina generally 3 times longer than wide, M + Cu at base on a certain length depending on the species, Sc + R longer than M + Cu. Metatibia with 1lateral spine and 1 or 2 row of spines apically.
Coloration. All Amberana species are colourful. Even on the darkest species, some yellow, orange or red spots are present. Tegmina generally opaque, translucent on some species.
Key to species of Amberana
1. Tegmina mainly red or orange............................................................................ 2
- Tegmina other than with a red or orange dominant colour...................................................... 7
2. Uniform colour for thorax, red or black.................................................................... 3
- Thorax black with a transversal orange band on pronotum (Fig. 21)................................... A. boucomonti
3. Thorax black, total length not exceeding 8 mm ............................................................. 4
- Thorax red, total length longer than 11 mm ................................................................. 5
4. Black border following costal, apical and sutural margins of tegmina, from tip of clavus black border get narrower and follows shortly clavo-corial suture........................................................................ A. limbata
- Black border on tegmina, starting only from tip of clavus, following apical margin and stopping at mid length of costal margin (Fig. 110)................................................................................... A. pygmaea
5. Black border starting from tip of clavus and following apical and costal margins of tegmina (Fig. 71)......... A. marginata
- Black line running along clavo-corial suture............................................................... 6
6. Black border all around tegmina, thin black line on clavo-corial suture and a black line on corium starting after M + Cu split and finishing before reaching the apex (Fig. 122).................................................... A. uncinata
- Larger black border around tegmina but finishing before last third of costal margin, black line on clavo-corial suture large, line on corium not individualised (Fig. 51)............................................................. A. fissurata
7. Tegmina partially translucent or smoked.................................................................. 8
- Tegmina opaque..................................................................................... 11
8. Tegmina without a black border following its apical margin (Figs 33–34)................................ A. dimidiata
- Black border following apical margin of tegmina............................................................. 9
9. Tegmina translucent with an orange patch along clavus basal margin and a red area along base of costal margin (Figs 86–87)............................................................................................ A noualhieri
- Tegmina yellowish smoked............................................................................. 10
10. Red patch at base of tegmina plus a red spot within internal curve of black apical border. Vertex and pronotum red (Figs 74–75)...................................................................................... A. maromandiana
- Orange patch at base of tegmina bordered posteriorly by a perpendicular black line that follows clavo-corial suture within orange patch. Vertex and scutellum black, pronotum orange (Fig. 61).................................... A. lemuria
11. Pronotum completely black............................................................................. 12
- Pronotum black bearing a yellow to orange transversal band................................................... 19
12. Tegmina mainly cream, with a black border and some red (Figs 91–92).................................. A. ouvrardi
- Tegmina mainly dark brown to black..................................................................... 13
13. Tegmina with anterior third orange and the rest black (Figs 52–53)..................................... A. humeralis
- Tegmina dark brown to black, bearing 2 or 3 spots of colour................................................... 14
14. Total length not exceeding 7 mm ........................................................................ 15
- Total length longer than 7 mm .......................................................................... 16
15. Tegmina bearing 3 yellow spots, both on corium are small (Figs 1–2)....................................... A. attiei
- Tegmina bearing 2 patches of colour orange (Figs 57–58)............................................... A. kraussi
16. Total length inferior to 11 mm ........................................................................... 17
- Total length equal or longer than 11.98 mm.......................................................... A. pascali
17. Apex of subgenital plate pointed................................................................. A. bergevini
- Apex of subgenital plate slightly bulbous.......................................................... A. elongata
18. Tegmina bearing only a band of colour along anterior claval margin, the rest of tegmina dark brown with some red (Figs 27–28)........................................................................................................................................................................................ A.brolemanni
- Tegmina bearing a band of colour along anterior claval margin plus two other spots of same colour.................... 19
19. Clypeus black (Fig. 81)........................................................................ A. melanops
- Clypeus yellow to orange (Fig. 112)............................................................. A. sexguttata
description: Published as part of Soulier-Perkins, Adeline & Kunz, Gernot, 2012, Revision of the malagassy endemic genus Amberana Distant (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) with description of one new genus, pp. 1-42 in Zootaxa 3156 (1) on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3156.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/279630