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Issue: Vol. 1109 No. 1: 17 Jan. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-01-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1109.1.2
Page range: 15–25
Abstract views: 77
PDF downloaded: 2

Two new species of the sharpshooter genus Desamera from northern Brazil (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
1Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil
Hemiptera Neotropics Auchenorrhyncha Cicadellinae Proconiini leafhopper morphology taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of the Neotropical sharpshooter genus Desamera Young are described and illustrated from Brazil: Desamera eliasi sp. nov. from Amazonas and Rondônia States and D. paraensis sp. nov. from Pará State. Desamera is for the first time recorded from northern and westcentral Brazil. The two new species can be recognized mainly by the aedeagal morphology. The female genitalia in Desamera are for the first time described in detail. Additional notes on the only other known species of the genus, D. intersecta (Germar), are provided.

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