<documentid="793F87C2BFABE16692E2658FCB0B9944"ID-CLB-Dataset="24793"ID-DOI="10.11646/zootaxa.4701.1.5"ID-GBIF-Dataset="3ae79ae4-cf34-4698-bfdb-6ffb298ab191"ID-ISSN="1175-5326"ID-Zenodo-Dep="3557837"ID-ZooBank="5E803236-44AC-4228-A442-72AAD7F32C8A"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.tables_requiresApprovalFor="existingObjects,operationResults,plazi"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.treatments_approvedBy="guilherme"checkinTime="1575043606795"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Bahder, Brian W., Bartlett, Charles R., Barrantes Barrantes, Edwin A., Zumbado Echavarria, Marco A., Humphries, Alessandra R., Helmick, Ericka E., Goss, Erica M. & Ascunce, Marina S."docDate="2019"docId="03A087FEFFAFAE67AEDF64D3F9FDFB50"docLanguage="en"docName="zootaxa.4701.1.5.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 4701 (1)"docStyle="DocumentStyle:647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D.9:Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleId="647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="9"docTitle="Myxia Bahder & Bartlett & Barrantes Barrantes & Zumbado Echavarria & Humphries & Helmick & Goss & Ascunce 2019, gen. n."docType="treatment"docVersion="11"lastPageNumber="74"masterDocId="FF99FF86FFA9AE6EAE486258FA48FF96"masterDocTitle="A new genus and species of cixiid planthopper (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea) from the Reserva Privada el Silencio de Los Angeles Cloud Forest in Costa Rica"masterLastPageNumber="81"masterPageNumber="65"pageNumber="71"updateTime="1739280948863"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="CB91F4396D6FCB309D044862261AAAAF">A new genus and species of cixiid planthopper (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea) from the Reserva Privada el Silencio de Los Angeles Cloud Forest in Costa Rica</mods:title>
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<figureCitationid="13322A6DFFAFAE68ADD16577F994F8DF"box="[921,988,1839,1865]"captionStart="FIGURE 2"captionStartId="7.[151,250,1974,1999]"captionTargetBox="[153,1435,997,1953]"captionTargetId="figure@7.[151,1436,995,1955]"captionTargetPageId="7"captionText="FIGURE 2. Front leg of adult male Myxia gen. n. belinda sp. n. demonstrating lack of denticle on forecoxa (FC), location where denticle is present in Myndus in white circle."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3557841"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3557841/files/figure.png"pageId="6"pageNumber="71">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
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, the gonostyli appear distally bifid, possessing a dorsal process near the terminus of each gonostylus in lateral view pointing dorsad and in ventral view, and a lateral tooth on the inner margin with an acute apex. In addition, medioventral process of pygofer is subtriangular. Phallobase separated from aedeagus.
Maximum Likelihood phylogenetic tree based on 18S sequence data (A) and COI sequence data (B). Branch support was assessed using 1,000 bootstrap replicates.
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<figureCitationid="13322A6DFFA1AE66AF2B62C1FBB8FF25"box="[355,496,153,179]"captionStart-0="FIGURE 4"captionStart-1="FIGURE 5"captionStart-2="FIGURE 6"captionStart-3="FIGURE 7"captionStart-4="FIGURE 8"captionStart-5="FIGURE 9"captionStartId-0="10.[151,250,1065,1090]"captionStartId-1="10.[151,250,1919,1944]"captionStartId-2="11.[151,250,1424,1449]"captionStartId-3="12.[151,250,1970,1995]"captionStartId-4="13.[151,250,1113,1138]"captionStartId-5="13.[151,250,2008,2033]"captionTargetBox-0="[179,1432,431,1042]"captionTargetBox-1="[171,1417,1144,1896]"captionTargetBox-2="[162,1418,628,1405]"captionTargetBox-3="[165,1436,913,1951]"captionTargetBox-4="[179,1417,299,1029]"captionTargetBox-5="[151,1436,1201,1963]"captionTargetId-0="figure@10.[151,1436,409,1045]"captionTargetId-1="figure@10.[151,1436,1140,1900]"captionTargetId-2="figure@11.[151,1436,625,1405]"captionTargetId-3="figure@12.[151,1436,913,1951]"captionTargetId-4="figure@13.[151,1436,286,1038]"captionTargetId-5="figure@13.[151,1436,1201,1963]"captionTargetPageId-0="10"captionTargetPageId-1="10"captionTargetPageId-2="11"captionTargetPageId-3="12"captionTargetPageId-4="13"captionTargetPageId-5="13"captionText-0="FIGURE 4. Adult habitus Myxia gen. n. belinda sp. n.; (A) body dorsal view male, (B) body lateral view male, (C) body dorsal view female, and (D) body lateral view female, scale = 1mm."captionText-1="FIGURE 5. Adult Myxia gen. n. belinda sp. n.; (A) male head frontal view, (B) male head, pronotum, mesonotum dorsal view, (C) male head, pronotum, mesonotum lateral view, (D) female head frontal view, (E) female head, pronotum, mesonotum dorsal view, (F) female head, pronotum, mesonotum lateral view, scale = 1mm."captionText-2="FIGURE 6. Forewing venation of Myxia gen. n. belinda sp. n."captionText-3="FIGURE 7. Male terminalia of Myxia gen. n. belinda sp. n.; (A) lateral view, (B) ventral view, and (C) dorsal view."captionText-4="FIGURE 8. Aedeagus of adult male Myxia gen. n. belinda sp. n.; (A) right lateral view, (B) left lateral view, and C. ventral view."captionText-5="FIGURE 9. Female terminalia of Myxia gen. n. belinda sp. n.; (A) lateral view, (B) ventral view, and (C) dorsal view."figureDoi-0="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3557845"figureDoi-1="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3557847"figureDoi-2="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3557849"figureDoi-3="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3557851"figureDoi-4="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3557853"figureDoi-5="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3557855"httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/3557845/files/figure.png"httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/3557847/files/figure.png"httpUri-2="https://zenodo.org/record/3557849/files/figure.png"httpUri-3="https://zenodo.org/record/3557851/files/figure.png"httpUri-4="https://zenodo.org/record/3557853/files/figure.png"httpUri-5="https://zenodo.org/record/3557855/files/figure.png"pageId="8"pageNumber="73">Figures 4–9</figureCitation>
). Head much narrower than pronotum, weakly projecting in front of eyes. Vertex much wider than long, approximately quadrate, lateral margins foliate, disk concave, median carina weak posteriorly, obsolete anteriorly. Fastigium rounded, frons approximately triangular, widening to frontoclypeal suture, median carinae present. Clypeus inversely triangular, narrowed to labrum. Pronotum very narrow, tricarinate, carinae reaching posterior margin; paradiscal region nearly exceeding antennae. Mesonotum broad and longer than vertex+pronotum, tricarinate; scutum and scutellum distinctly separated by inflection. Tegulae evident, without carinae. Coxae of front leg without ventral denticles. Fore femora lacking denticle. Tibiae of hind legs lacking spines. Wings transparent, macropterous, well-exceeding apex of abdomen. Abdomen weakly compressed. Pygofer in lateral view roughly triangular, widest ventrally; ventral margin of pygofer opening bearing elongate subtriangular projection. Gonostyli elongate, distally bearing apical and subapical tooth (at least in
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); anal column elongate. Aedeagus simple bearing small apical flagellum, phallobase surrounding aedeagal base and projecting caudally to subtend aedeagus, bearing multiple elongate projections.
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due to overall similarity in structure and general habit. More careful morphological examination seemed to confirm generic placement. The general form and behavior of this taxon appeared to coincide with
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<bibRefCitationid="EF984B19FFA0AE67AC376035F950FD11"author="Kramer, J. P."box="[639,792,621,647]"pageId="9"pageNumber="74"pagination="301 - 389"refId="ref10261"refString="Kramer, J. P. (1979) Taxonomic study of the planthopper genus Myndus in the Americas (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 105 (3), 301 - 389."type="journal article"year="1979">Kramer 1979</bibRefCitation>
, figs. 159–162), terminalia exhibit a rounded terminus of the gonostyli in both ventral and lateral views.
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and serves as a useful morphological template for comparison.
<bibRefCitationid="EF984B19FFA0AE67AB7F6080FAAAFC81"author="Caldwell, J. S."pageId="9"pageNumber="74"pagination="203 - 206"refId="ref9416"refString="Caldwell, J. S. (1946) Notes on Haplaxius Fowler with descriptions of new species (Homoptera, Cixiidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 48 (8), 203 - 206."type="journal article"year="1946">Caldwell (1946)</bibRefCitation>
) “...could be subdivided into a series of genera or subgenera; these divisions would be based primarily upon structural features or variations in the pattern of the male genitalia, especially the aedeagus.”
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. This represents the first genus-group to be erected associated with
, according to Kramer (1977) possesses a similar form for both the gonostyli (bifurcated with dorsal process angled dorsad) and medioventral process (subtriangular). Also, the aedeagus is simple with hooked flagellum and phallobase bearing large processes according to
<bibRefCitationid="EF984B19FFA0AE67ACF66645F928FBA1"author="Kramer, J. P."box="[702,864,1053,1079]"pageId="9"pageNumber="74"pagination="301 - 389"refId="ref10261"refString="Kramer, J. P. (1979) Taxonomic study of the planthopper genus Myndus in the Americas (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 105 (3), 301 - 389."type="journal article"year="1979">Kramer (1979</bibRefCitation>
; Fig. 175–179). Based on the overall similarity of the terminalia to the novel taxon we propose
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