Polana (Hobemanella) chena DeLong & Wolda, 1978

Domahovski, Alexandre Cruz, 2025, Five new species of Polana (Polana) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Gyponini) from Brazil and Costa Rica, and new combinations in the genus, Zootaxa 5584 (2), pp. 179-204 : 196

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.2.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CC1F4572-DF3C-4266-A72A-53BF8037EB7E
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14830806
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038987E6-FFA2-4306-75BB-E0083266F952
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Polana (Hobemanella) chena DeLong & Wolda, 1978
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Polana (Hobemanella) chena DeLong & Wolda, 1978 View in CoL comb. nov.

Polana (Polanana) chena DeLong & Wolda, 1978: 229 View in CoL .

Remarks. The subgenus Hobemanella is recognized mainly by the following features: (1) head as in the subgenus Polana (slightly narrower than pronotum); (2) pygofer with or without dorsal processes; when present, variable in structure; (3) aedeagus strongly curved near base, with pair of processes arising from the dorsal apodeme.According to the original description and illustrations ( DeLong & Wolda 1978: 229, figs 6–10), Polana chena has the three characteristics listed above and therefore is here transferred to the subgenus Hobemanella .

DeLong & Foster (1982) described six species of Polana in the subgenera Polana , Polanana and Nihilana . Polana pravida , one of the species placed in the subgenus Polana is similar to P. villara , with processes near the mid-length of the aedeagal shaft, but without processes near base. Therefore, the following combination is proposed:

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Cicadellidae
Tribe	Gyponini
Genus	Polana