A new species of Neopsis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Tartessinae), with new distribution records from Paraná State, Brazil

Abstract

Neopsis campestris sp. nov. is described and illustrated based on male and female specimens collected on native grassland at the Guartelá State Park, Paraná State, Southern Brazil. New distribution records are presented for three previously known species, Neopsis aurea Takiya & Dietrich, 2017, Neopsis myrceugeniae Takiya & Dietrich, 2017 and Neopsis robusta Linnavuori, 1965, representing the first known records of the subfamily Tartessinae for Paraná State. A distribution map is also provided to illustrate the locality data of specimens studied herein.

A new genus of Cicadellini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from the Oaxacan Cloud Forest, with taxonomic notes on allied red-striped genera

“…Cicadellinae Latreille, 1825 leafhoppers are relatively well documented throughout most of tropical America, with several recent authors having substantially increased the number of taxa known from different ecosystems (Quintas et al 2020(Quintas et al , 2022Felix et al 2022;Froza & Mejdalani 2022;Mejdalani et al 2022). Brazilian researchers have been leading new species discovery and description of leafhoppers in this region in recent years (Domahovski 2021;Camisão & Dietrich 2022;Da-Silva et al 2022;Gonçalves & Viegas 2022). In Mexico, few recent attempts have been made to document the sharpshooter fauna due to the smaller number of researchers devoted to the Mexican fauna (Blanco-Rodríguez et al 2015, 2022Blanco-Rodríguez & Pinedo-Escatel 2022).…”