Prodigiella silvanoi Pecly & Quintas & Domahovski & Cavichioli & Mejdalani 2024, gen. et sp. nov.
Creators: name: Pecly, Nathalia H.
name: Quintas, Victor
name: Domahovski, Alexandre C.
name: Cavichioli, Rodney R.
name: Mejdalani, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Prodigiella
Prodigiella silvanoi

description: Prodigiella silvanoi gen. et sp. nov.
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Figs 1–17
Diagnosis
Crown, pronotum, and mesonotum (Figs 1–2, 17) greenish-yellow mottled with irregular dark brown lines and spots; posterior ⅔ of pronotal disc with large dark green area. Forewing (Figs 1–2, 17) with corium and clavus mostly green; distal half with irregular transverse dark brown markings; apical portion with large, arcuate dark red to brown area located before well-defined translucent membrane. Frons (Figs 2–3, 17) laterally with transverse brown stripes associated with muscle impressions.
Etymology
The new species is described in honor of Silvano Rodrigues Pecly (1964–2022), father of the first author.
Material examined
Holotype
BRAZIL • ♂; State of Paraná, PR [Paraná], Antonina, RPPN [Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural] – Guaricica; 50 m a.s.l.; 25.316°S, 48.696°W; 23–27 Oct. 2017; sweep; A.C. Domahovski leg.; DZUP.
Paratypes
BRAZIL – State of Paraná • 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀; Antonina; Res. [Reserva], Rio Cachoeira; 50 m a.s.l.; 25.316° S, 48.696° W; 23–27 Jan. 2017 Malaise; Entomologia UFPR; MNRJ • 3 ♂♂; same collection data as for preceding; DZUP • 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; sweep; A.C. Domahovski leg; DZUP • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; DZRJ • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 25–26 Mar. 2017; DZUP • 1 ♀; Morretes, P. [Parque] E. [Estadual] do Marumbi, caminho para Estação Eng. [Engenheiro] Lang; 330 m; 25°25′41″ S, 48º54′55″ W; 27 Sep. 2016; sweep; A.C. Domahovski leg.; DZUP • 1 ♂; Antonina, Reserva Sapitanduva; 29 Dec. 1986; Lev. [Levantamento] Ent. [Entomológico] PROFAUPAR; Malaise; DZUP • 1 ♂; same data as for preceding, 18 Aug. 1986; MNRJ • 1 ♂; Morretes; (IAPAR); 18–25 Mar. 1985; CIIF [Centro de Identificação de Insetos Fitófagos]; Malaise; DZUP • 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; 4–11 Mar. 1985; DZUP • 1 ♀; Morretes; 23 Feb. 2018; sweep; A.C. Domahovski leg.; DZUP • 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀; Antonina; RPPN [Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural] Guaricica; 25.316° S, 48.696° W; 31 Jan.–4 Feb. 2022; by light; Entomologia – UFPR; DZUP • 1 ♂; same data as for preceding; 25–29 Nov. 2019; MNRJ • 2 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; sweep; MNRJ • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; 15–19 Apr. 2019; DZUP • 1 ♀; Morretes; 18 Feb.1985; CIIF; by light; DZUP • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; 5–6 Nov. 1985; DZUP • 2 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; 27 Dec. 1984 – 6 Jan. 1985; CIIF - Malaise; DZUP • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; 12–19 Nov. 1984; CIIF; Malaise; DZUP • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; 17–27 Dec. 1984; CIIF; Malaise; DZUP. – State of Rio de Janeiro • 1 ♀; Tijuca; Jan. 1935; Charles Hathamay; gen. sp. unknown; det. D.A. Young; DZUP.
Description
MEASUREMENTS (mm). Holotype (♂): total length 7.0. Paratypes (♂): 6.3–7.0 mm (n = 5); (♀): 7.2–7.7 (n = 5).
COLORATION (Figs 1–3, 17). Anterior dorsum (crown, pronotum, and mesonotum) greenish-yellow mottled with irregular dark brown lines and spots; posterior ⅔ of pronotal disc with large dark green area. Forewing with corium and clavus mostly green with veins partially dark brown; distal half with irregular transverse dark brown markings (other irregular small dark brown markings may also be present); apical portion with large, arcuate dark red to brown area located before well-defined translucent membrane; irregular greenish-yellow markings and areas may be present along costal margin and on veins. Ground color of face mostly yellow; frons laterally with transverse brown stripes associated with muscle impressions and centrally with small irregular brown markings. Legs yellowish-brown to brown. Abdomen with tergites and outer portion of laterotergites red; inner portion of laterotergites and sternites brownish-yellow with irregular dark brown markings; male genital capsule red to brown laterally and dorsally (pygofer) and brown ventrally (valve and subgenital plates); female with sternite VII brownish-yellow, pygofer red dorsally and brownish-yellow ventrally, gonoplac brown.
description: Published as part of Pecly, Nathalia H., Quintas, Victor, Domahovski, Alexandre C., Cavichioli, Rodney R. & Mejdalani, Gabriel, 2024, A new genus and species of Cicadellini (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, pp. 64-75 in European Journal of Taxonomy 921 on pages 69-71, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.921.2415, http://zenodo.org/record/10608824