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Issue: Vol. 5005 No. 3: 27 Jul. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-07-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.3.8
Page range: 339-348
Abstract views: 387
PDF downloaded: 21

Two new species of the sharpshooter genus Paratubana (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini) from alpine fields of Rio de Janeiro state, southeastern Brazil

Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Caixa Postal 68044, 21941-971 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Departamento de Zoologia, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná. Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-980 Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Cicadellinae Eryngium leafhoppers morphology taxonomy Hemiptera

Abstract

Two new species of Paratubana Young, 1977 are described and illustrated from Rio de Janeiro state, southeastern Brazil, based on specimens collected in alpine fields (above 1,800 m) of the Serra dos Órgãos mountain range. Paratubana auromarginata sp. nov. (Pico da Caledônia) can be recognized by the paraphyses with the apex bifurcate, forming an outer subquadrate projection and inner spiniform process, whereas in P. takiyae sp. nov. (Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos) the paraphyses have a pair of strong spiniform processes directed dorsally and crossing each other. The two new species are apparently closely related to each other and both use Eryngium L. (Apiaceae) as host plants. A key to males of the ten known species of the genus is added, as well as two maps of their known distribution.

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