Two new species of Scaris le peletier & serville (Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Gyponinae) from Brazil

Abstract

A BSTRA cr. Scaris bahiensis, sp.n. is described based on an adult ma le from Bahia. It is not closely related to any species of its genus. Scaris nessimiani, sp.n., related to S. de recta DeLong & Freytag, 1969, is described based on an adult male from Mato Grosso. KEY WORDS. Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Gyponinae, new species Scans bahiensis, sp.n. Figs 1-7Length of male 12mm, female unknown. Crown pale brown, nearly three times as wide between eyes at base as the median length; transverse striae changing in oblique ones between ocelli. Ocelli red, 1.5 time closer to proximal eyes than to median line. Face pale brown, post-c1ypeus with numerous dark lateral arcs; anteclipeus with two small spots laterally to the median line; genae with a dark elongated spot. Pronotum pale brown, striated transversally, with small brown spots on the central area and a narrow transverse dark brown band wavyly outlined on the posterior margin, nearly two times as wide as median length. Forewing pale brown with a brown spot on its base; claval veins with a reddish brown spot on the apex; venation reddish brown; appendix developed, with two dark spots.Male genitalia. Subgenital plate three times as long as broad, narrowed and rounded at the apex. Style stout, sharp-pointed apically, curved outside; a leaf-like projection on its subapical region, thinly toothed on the outer margin. Aedeagus short, curving upward, with longitudinallatero-ventral fo lds all along the shaft, in ventral view; a single short ventro-basal process at the middle, with the truncate apex pointing downward; apex of shaft with a pair of short and delicate dorsal processes and a latero-dorsal keel-shaped expansion; terminal gonopore covered by an apical membrane. Pygofer truncate at apex, with a slender dorsal anterior process on each side, extending into capsule and a hemisphericallatero-ventral fold, in the median third.Holotype male. BRAZIL, Bahia, Encruzilhada, XI-1972, M. Alvarenga leg.,