New species of the treehopper tribe Amastrini (Hemiptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae)

Abstract

Amastris rotheai sp. nov. (Fig. 1) Diagnosis. Greenish yellow, with two irregular dark spots on each side of dorsum, metopidium with a pair of narrow brownish bands, abdomen orange at sides; pronotum with two shallow indentations, one at about one-third and other at one-half. Pronotum greenish yellow, with two irregular dark spots on each side, the first larger, at about one-third, and the second at two-thirds; head greenish, slightly paler around ocelli; eyes pale green mottled with dark red, ocelli shining; metopidium with a pair of narrow brownish bands, arising above internal angle of eyes, converging to middle and then vanishing posteriorly; median carina very narrowly edged with brown; New species of the treehopper tribe Amastrini (Hemiptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae)¹ , ² ¹Contribution nº 1639 of the Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná.

A striking new treehopper genus Mutilifolia (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Smiliinae: Telamonini), from Costa Rica

“…Since 2004, numerous articles have been published improving the taxonomy of the second largest treehopper subfamily, the Smiliinae. Most of the recent taxonomic work has focused on the tribes Amastrini (Evangelista and Sakakibara 2007b), Ceresini (Andrade 2004a, b;2005;2008), Smiliini (Wallace 2011), and Telamonini (Wallace 2011). Only two Smiliinae genera were described during this period, Aurimastris Evangelista and Sakakibara (2007a) Telamonines are known for their large size (8-10 mm) and striking pronotal projections, sometimes assuming a quadrate, sinuate, tonguelike, or thornlike shape (Ball 1931;Wallace 2011).…”