Polana (Polana) thugana DeLong & Triplehorn, 1979

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 : 195

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.14830788
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038987E6-FFA3-4307-75BB-E1503409FA2F
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Polana (Polana) thugana DeLong & Triplehorn, 1979
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Polana (Polana) thugana DeLong & Triplehorn, 1979 View in CoL comb. nov.

Polana (Nihilana) thugana DeLong & Triplehorn, 1979: 181 View in CoL .

Remarks. Similar to P. onara , the aedeagus of P. thugana presents a pair of long basal processes, originally described as following: “Aedeagus with a pair of long processes arising at base of shaft which extend caudally half the length of shaft where they are bent abruptly dorsally, narrowed and tapered to slender apices” ( DeLong & Triplehorn 1979: 188, figs 66–70). Therefore, this species is transferred to the subgenus Polana .

DeLong (1979) described five species of Polana , placing them in the subgenera Bulbusana , Nihilana , Polana , and Hobemanella . The only species placed in the subgenus Polana , P. villara , from Argentina, lacks processes near base of aedeagus. Thus, the following new combination is proposed:

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