A remarkable new species of spittlebug and a second living New World genus in the Clastopteridae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea)
Author
Paladini, Andressa
0000-0001-8894-6092
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Ecologia e Evolução, Av. Roraima, 1000, Camobi, Santa Maria, 97105 - 900 RS, Brazil. andri. paladini @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8894 - 6092
andri.paladini@gmail.com
Author
Thompson, Vinton
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 Street, New York, NY 10024 - 5192, USA. Department of Biological Sciences, University at Albany, Albany, NY, 12222, USA.
Author
Bell, Adam J.
Author
Cryan, Jason R.
Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, USA.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-09-16
4852
3
361
371
journal article
8395
10.11646/zootaxa.4852.3.7
2fc06b8c-bcd1-4d48-9e2a-cffaa5ba5a1d
1175-5326
4409981
D5AF838B-1467-4D1B-BF4B-2ACDD12C0E96
Clastoptera
Germar
Clastoptera
Germar, 1839
.
Type
species:
Clastoptera achatina
Germar
, by subsequent designation (
Van Duzee 1917
).
Diagnosis:
Globose, small insects, variable in size and color markings. Head wider than long; vertex narrow; postclypeus without a median carina, inflated; antennae inserted in deep cavities between eyes and postclypeus; pronotum broader than long, transversely wrinkled; scutellum triangular, much longer than wide; tegmina deflected posteriorly, clavus with apex rounded, corium terminating in a hyaline membrane; male pygofer higher than wide with a prominent process just below anal tube, subgenital plates fused to posterior edge of pygofer; paramere (style) strongly hooked dorsally.