Description of a new genus of North and Central American planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) with fourteen new species Author Yanega, Douglas Entomology Research Museum, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 - 0314 USA Author Goemans, Geert Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium Author Dam, Matthew Van Entomology Department, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118 USA Author Gómez-Marco, Francesc Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 - 0314 USA Author Hoddle, Mark Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 - 0314 USA text Zootaxa 2024 2024-04-19 5443 1 1 53 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5443.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5443.1.1 1175-5326 10997023 85B08D1D-489A-43A9-9E66-86755024D9FB Scaralina durango Yanega , sp. nov. ( Figs 17 , 30 , 45 , 60 ) Etymology . This species is named for its provenance, and treated as a noun in apposition. Diagnosis . This species is most similar to aethrinsula , with which it shares the unmodified female tergum 6 that would have excluded it from consideration as a member of the “ Calyptoproctina ”, but with some similarities also to cristata , as the pronotal carina is somewhat stronger than is typical, and the forewings are medially maculated. The face is very dark; the forewings are relatively heavily maculated, especially medially, with some orange tint to the translucent basal area; the hindwing bases are reddish-orange; the emargination of the female anal tube is more nearly semicircular than most species. Description (female only; male unknown). Head ( Figs 30 , 45 ). Many features as in aethrinsula , but lower frons and clypeus much darker. Thorax ( Fig. 45 ). Many features as in aethrinsula , but pronotal medial ridge more prominent, mesonotum darker laterally; dorsal setae slightly longer. Wings ( Figs 17 , 60 ). Forewings with membrane in several medial cells black and nearly opaque, though not quite as extensive as in cristata , and with somewhat more visible brownish-orange pigmentation to membrane near base; venation much like cristata , if not slightly coarser, generally not as finely anastomosing as in aethrinsula , especially not in the anal portion. Costal crossveins numerous, close, highly anastomosing, highly reticulate, more similar to aethrinsula . Veins and venules often outlined in black, though not quite as often as in cristata . Hindwing bases reddish-orange. Abdomen ( Fig. 17 ). Nearly identical to aethrinsula , though possibly with weaker medial pigmentation, tergum 6 unmodified. Type material . Holotype , female: MEXICO : Durango : “ Coscomate Camps , 2450m 23°42’1”N 105°34’9”W , 25.vii.2019 D.C. Hawks MV” ( UCRC ENT 533958 , at UCRC ) . Distribution . So far known only from the type locality in western Durango .