Taxonomic notes on some Polyglyptini: descriptions of new genus and new species (Homoptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae)

Abstract

ABSTRACT. Taxonomic notes on some Polyglyptini; descripti ons of new genus and new species (Homoptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae The tribe Polyglyptini, as Deitz (1975) states, "is not as well defined as some of other smiliine tribes". Most of the genera, in this tribe, has the pronotum well developed, extended to apex oftegmina, covering more than half of them, and with sides not always longitudinally carinated, occurring in the same genus, species with or without carinae. The venations of both, tegmina and wings, are variable. In the tegmina, almost always, the veins R, M, and Cu are separated near the base; but in some cases the R and M are distinctly united near the base or along the basal half. The discoidal cell (R2+3) may be present or not. The wings show two patterns of venation: with four apical cells, the second one distinctly peciolated, or with three apical cells where R4+5 and M1+2 are not separated.The genera here treated can be distinguished by the following key:

Morphology-based phylogenetic analysis of the treehopper tribe Smiliini (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Smiliinae), with reinstatement of the tribe Telamonini

“…7A, 1) (Deitz 1975). Most of the recent comprehensive taxonomic research on Smiliinae has focused on the tribes Acutalini (Sakakibara 1997), Amastrini (Evangelista and Sakakibara 2007), Ceresini (Andrade 2004), Micrutalini (Sakakibara 1999), and Polyglyptini (Sakakibara 1996), although Cast (2002), in his Master's thesis, conducted a phylogenetic analysis of the Smiliinae using four mitochondrial genes.…”