Eine neue Cixiidae-Art, Pintalia hannae nov. spec., wird aus den Regenwäldern der Cordillera Talamanca und des südlichen (pazifischen) Teils von Costa Rica beschrieben. Die Art ist leicht an ihrer auffälligen Färbung zu erkennen: Kopf und Thorax sind leuchtend orange, die Vor-derflügel-Ränder sind entlang des Clavus breit weiß, die übrigen Vorderflügel gelblich-stroh-farben mit nur wenigen dunkleren Flecken.&nbsp;A new Cixiidae species, Pintalia hannae nov. spec., is described from rainforests of the Cordillera Talamanca and the southern (Pacific) part of Costa Rica. The species is easily recognised by its stunning colouration: Head and thorax are bright orange, the forewing mar-gins are broad white along the clavus, and the remaining forewings are yellowish-straw col-oured with only a few darker spots.&nbsp

Holzinger, Werner E.

Kunz, Gernot

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Cicadina 21 (2022): 1-9  1  A new Pintalia species from Costa Rica (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) Gernot Kunz, Werner E. Holzinger1  Summary: A new Cixiidae species, Pintalia hannae nov. spec., is described from rainforests of the Cordillera Talamanca and the southern (Pacific) part of Costa Rica. The species is easily recognised by its stunning colouration: Head and thorax are bright orange, the forewing mar-gins are broad white along the clavus, and the remaining forewings are yellowish-straw col-oured with only a few darker spots. Keywords: Auchenorrhyncha, Pintaliini, Pintalia, new species, Costa Rica, rainforest 1. Introduction Pintalia Stål, 1862 is one of the most speciose genera within Auchenorrhyncha. It was erected by Carolus Stål (1862) in a monograph on Hemiptera from Rio de Janeiro for nine Cixiidae species from Brazil; type species is Pintalia lateralis Stål, 1862. Many authors – especially Frederic Muir (1934), John S. Caldwell (1944) and Ronald G. Fennah (1945) – added new taxa from South, Central and North America and from the Carribean Islands. Today, the genus comprises more than 80 species (Bourgoin 2022) and is in urgent need of revision. During a field trip to Costa Rica, the first author discovered another new Pintalia species with an unique colour pattern. It is described below. 2. Material and Methods The morphological terms applied here follow Löcker et al. (2006) in general, the terminology of the carinae and compartments on the head follows Löcker (2014), the terminology of the wing venation follows Bourgoin et al. (2015). Insects were examined and measured using an Olympus SZH10 stereo microscope with an eyepiece graticule and a drawing mirror. Photographs of living specimens were taken with a digital SLR camera (Canon EOS 20D, together with the Canon MPE-65mm macro lens and the Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX II). Stacked images were made with a Keyence VHX-5000 digi-tal microscope system. Both line drawings and photographs were then edited with Adobe Photoshop CS6 (R). Specimens are stored in following collections: OEKO = Oekoteam-Institute for Animal Ecology and Landscape Planning, Bergmanngasse 22, Graz, Austria MNCR = Museo Nacional De Costa Rica, Avenidas 0 y 2, Calle 15, Barrio Bella Vista, Catedral, 10104, San José, Costa Rica                                                        1Corresponding authors, emails: gernot.kunz@gmail.com, holzinger@oekoteam.at Published online 28 April 2022 2 G. Kunz & W.E. Holzinger  3. Taxonomy Pintalia Stål, 1862 The Cixiidae genus Pintalia contains Cixiidae of average size (5-7 mm), with laterally com-pressed abdomen and wings held steeply roof-shaped in resting position. According to Kra-mer (1983) and other authors, further characters of Pintalia are: Head in dorsal view smaller than the pronotum, frons much longer than wide, median ocellus present, distinct keel be-tween frons and vertex present, vertex with a transverse keel near the middle, mesonotum tricarinate, flat in lateral view, ScP+RA and RP(+MA) with a common stem, veins with fine granulae, hind tibia with 1-3 small lateral spines, distal end of hind tibia with six spines of different size, aedeagus with long and well developed apical flagellum, ovipositor well de-veloped. The genus lacks a modern, comprehensive review and a phylogenetic analysis. It is likely, that the species currently placed in this genus do not form a monophyletic clade. Thus, our placement of the new species in Pintalia is tentative. Pintalia hannae nov. spec. Zoobank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:774A0156-EF2C-4606-A54E-CCB3970BE32C Material: Holotype: Male, Costa Rica: Cordillera Talamanca, Cartago province, El Copal 20 km SE Cartago, 9°47’02’’N, 83°45’06’’W, 1048 m a.s.l., 04.-08.03.2019, Gernot Kunz leg., in coll. OEKO. – Paratypes: One male and two females from Costa Rica: Puntarenas province, Penin-sula Osa, La Tarde, 8°34’38-59’’N, 83°29’11-51’’W, 100-200 m a.s.l., 13.-15.03.2019, Gernot Kunz leg., one male and one female in coll. MNCR, the other female in coll. OEKO. – Further specimens: One specimen from Costa Rica, Puntarenas province, La Gamba, Tropical Field Station, secondary forest, lighttrap, 8°42’13’’N, 83°12’12’’W, 100 m a.s.l., 20.05.2006, Gernot Kunz leg.; one specimen from Costa Rica, Puntarenas province, San Vito, Wilson Botanical Garden, lightrap, 8°47’6.84’’N, 82°57’37’’W 1192 m, 09.03.2019, Gernot Kunz leg.; one speci-men from Costa Rica, San José province, Tinamaste, Villa Bella Vista, garden around house, 9°18’42’’N, 83°47’15’’W, 668m, 20.09.2020, photo Laurent Hesemans; one male and two fe-males from Costa Rica, Puntarenas province, Peninsula Osa, La Tarde, trailside, sweepnet, 8°34’40’’N, 83°29’10’’W, 200 m a.s.l., 08.07.2021, Brian W. Bahder leg.  Description: Colouration:  Head and for body of living specimens bright orange, eyes light blue. Dorsal margin of fore wings along Clavus (A2 vein) broad white, with wax filaments. rest of wings semitransparent-yellowish-straw-coloured, hind margin fuscous. Only few darker streaks and spots on the wing, as shown in Figs 1 and 2. Legs whitish-yellowish. Morphology: Body size: 5.4-6.5 mm in males, 5.9-6.6 mm in females. Head (Fig. 3): Frons longer than wide, with disctinct median keel, median ocellus present. Lateral keels moderately elevated. Vertex 1.2 times wider than long, transverse subapical ca-rina distinct, longitudinal median carina absent. Thorax (Fig. 3): Pronotum narrow, Mesonotum tricarinate.  A new Pintalia species from Costa Rica 3   Fig. 1: Pintalia hannae in the field (Peninsula Osa, La Tarde), showing its unique colour pattern. (A) lateral view, (B) dorsal view.   A B 4 G. Kunz & W.E. Holzinger   Fig. 2: Pintalia hannae, fore wing venation and hind leg.  Fore wings (Figs 1 and 2): Long and slender, compared to many other “Pintalia” species. CuP near basal cell with a dark spot with many short setae, some of which are black. RP apically trifid, MP1+2 apically trifid, icu reaching wing margin distad of apex of clavus. Crossveins ir, r-m2, im and m-cu2 almost at the same level. Legs (Fig. 2): Hind tibia with three small, but distinct lateral spines and 6 apical spines, ar-ranged as in Fig. 2.  Male genitalia (Figs 4-6): Anal segment in lateral view slender, without distinct widenings or processes, ending in a blunt apex. Aedeagus with tubular phallotheca, bearing three long spines: One originating basally on the right side and curved semicircular ventrocaudad (spine 1 in Fig. 4), one originating subapically on the right side, s-shaped, pointing left-craniad ven-trally of the phallotheca (spine 2 in Fig. 4), and one emanating in the middle of the phallotheca on the left side and curved dorsally of the phallotheca to the right (spine 3 in Fig. 4). Another short, “shark fin”-shaped rigid process emanates in the middle of the phallotheca on the right side. The flagellum of the aedeagus is well developed, long, and with a semicircular, blunt process on its right side (no. 4 in Fig. 4). The male genital styles are symmetrical and have a slender basal part and an elongated apical part ending in an inward curved tip (Fig 4D). Female genitalia: Abdomen apically rounded, capsular-truncate, ovipositor well developed, straight, not adjacent to the abdomen.  Etymology The species is dedicated to Johanna Gunczy, nickname “Hanna”, enthusiastic entomologist and life partner of the first author. Distribution The new species was found in rainforest habitats of Costa Rica only, in the provinces Pun-tarenas, San José and Cartago. Its occurrence in south western parts of Panama is very prob-able.  A new Pintalia species from Costa Rica 5  Differential diagnosis The species is easily recognisable by its unique colouration; no other Cixiidae species has this orange head and thorax in combination with the white claval border and yellowish-straw-coloured wings with only few small darker spots. Furthermore, the spinulation of the ae-deagus is unique.  Fig. 3: Pintalia hannae, head, pronotum and mesonotum in lateral view (top), dorsal view (center) and frontal view (bottom). 6 G. Kunz & W.E. Holzinger    Fig. 4: Pintalia hannae, aedeagus in left lateral (A), right lateral (B), ventral view (C), and male genital style in inner maximum view (D).  A new Pintalia species from Costa Rica 7    Fig. 5: Pintalia hannae, aedeagus in left dorsolateral view (A) and right lateral view (B). B A 8 G. Kunz & W.E. Holzinger   Fig. 6: Pintalia hannae, male genital and anal segment in lateral view (left) and male anal segment in caudal view (right). 4. Zusammenfassung Eine neue Cixiidae-Art, Pintalia hannae nov. spec., wird aus den Regenwäldern der Cordillera Talamanca und des südlichen (pazifischen) Teils von Costa Rica beschrieben. Die Art ist leicht an ihrer auffälligen Färbung zu erkennen: Kopf und Thorax sind leuchtend orange, die Vor-derflügel-Ränder sind entlang des Clavus breit weiß, die übrigen Vorderflügel gelblich-stroh-farben mit nur wenigen dunkleren Flecken.  A new Pintalia species from Costa Rica 9  5. Acknowledgements We are grateful to Erwin Holzer (Anger, Austria) and Richard Kunz (Gratwein, Austria) for the companionship on several scientific excursions to Costa Rica and to Julio César do Carmo vaz Santos (University of Lavras, Brazil) for sharing his unpublished photos of Pintalia lateralis with us. We also thank Brian Bahder for sharing further distribution data. Furthermore, we want to thank SINAC (Sistema Nacional de Áreas de Conservación) for the collecting permis-sion (permits No. M-PC-SINAC-PNI-ACLAP-006-2019 and SINAC-ACOSA-D-R-060-2021). 6. References Bourgoin T. (2022): FLOW (Fulgoromorpha Lists on The Web): a world knowledge base dedicated to Fulgoromorpha. 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A new Pintalia species from Costa Rica (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae)

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A new Pintalia species from Costa Rica (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae)

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