A New genus of flightless leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) from the Páramo of Northern South America
Author
Dietrich, Christopher H.
0000-0003-4005-4305
Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, 1816 S. Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820, USA chdietri @ illinois. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4005 - 4305
chdietri@illinois.edu
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-05-26
5141
3
270
276
journal article
60688
10.11646/zootaxa.5141.3.4
73994558-c2f2-4450-b8e1-4d8b0fb6cdab
1175-5326
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Diablophthalmus marmoratus
,
sp. n.
(
Figures 1C–E
,
3B–G
)
Description.
Length of female
4.1 mm
(male unknown). Overall color reddish brown, forewing margin with alternating bands of white and brown coloration. Head with dorsal projections in dorsal view separated from each other by less than length of each projection; frontal carina well developed, extended continuously between antennal ledges. Pronotum with small median crest posteriorly. Female sternite VII with median posterior notch slightly shallower and broader than in
D.
wygodzinskyorum
.
Material examined.
Holotype
female,
Colombia
:
Bogota
:
Páramo
de Monserrate,
April–Nov. 1968
,
Sturm.
collector (
AMNH
).
Note.
Although this species is known only from a single female specimen, it is easily distinguishable from the
type
species of the genus by the smaller size, different coloration, and more closely set dorsal projections of the head.