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Issue: Vol. 5609 No. 2: 20 Mar. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-03-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5609.2.2
Page range: 174-192
Abstract views: 91
PDF downloaded: 5

A new species of Microledrida Fowler from Curaçao (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae)

Naturalis Biodiversity Center; Darwinweg 2; 2333 CR Leiden; The Netherlands.; Netherlands Institute for Vectors; Invasive plants and Plant health (NIVIP); National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO); Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA); Geertjesweg 15; 6706 EA Wageningen; The Netherlands
University of Delaware; Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology; 250 Townsend Hall; Newark; DE 19716-2160; USA.
University of Delaware; Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology; 250 Townsend Hall; Newark; DE 19716-2160; USA.
Hemiptera Caribbean Cixiini Dutch Antilles planthoppers true hoppers

Abstract

As part of a review of the Auchenorrhyncha of the (former) Dutch Antilles, a new species in the genus Microledrida, Microledrida malpaisa sp. nov., is described from Curaçao. The novel taxon differs from other species in the genus in colouration and form of its male genitalia, especially the shape of the anal tube and the number and shape of the spinal processes of the phallotheca. The records from Curaçao, a record from Panama, and iNaturalist records from Costa Rica comprise the southernmost records of the genus, which was hitherto not formally recorded south of Guatemala and Puerto Rico. An illustrated checklist and revised key to species are presented.

 

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