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Clastoptera Germar 1839
Authors/Creators
- 1. Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Ecologia e Evolução, Av. Roraima, 1000, Camobi, Santa Maria, 97105 - 900 RS, Brazil. andri. paladini @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8894 - 6092
- 2. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 Street, New York, NY 10024 - 5192, USA. Department of Biological Sciences, University at Albany, Albany, NY, 12222, USA.
- 3. Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, USA.
Description
Clastoptera Germar
Clastoptera Germar, 1839. Type species: Clastoptera achatina Germar, by subsequent designation (Van Duzee 1917).
Diagnosis: Globose, small insects, variable in size and color markings. Head wider than long; vertex narrow; postclypeus without a median carina, inflated; antennae inserted in deep cavities between eyes and postclypeus; pronotum broader than long, transversely wrinkled; scutellum triangular, much longer than wide; tegmina deflected posteriorly, clavus with apex rounded, corium terminating in a hyaline membrane; male pygofer higher than wide with a prominent process just below anal tube, subgenital plates fused to posterior edge of pygofer; paramere (style) strongly hooked dorsally.
Notes
Published as part of Paladini, Andressa, Thompson, Vinton, Bell, Adam J. & Cryan, Jason R., 2020, A remarkable new species of spittlebug and a second living New World genus in the Clastopteridae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea), pp. 361-371 in Zootaxa 4852 (3) on page 363, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4409981
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Germar
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Clastopteridae
- Genus
- Clastoptera
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Clastoptera Germar, 1839 sec. Paladini, Thompson, Bell & Cryan, 2020
References
- Germar, E. F. (1839) Drei neue Gattungen der Cicadinen, aufgestellt vom herausgeber. Zeitschrift fur die Entomologie, herausgegeben von E. F. Germar, Leipzig, 1, 187 - 192.
- Van Duzee, E. P. (1917) Check list of Hemiptera (excepting the Aphididae, Aleurodidae and Coccidae) of America north of Mexico. University of California Publications, Technical Bulletins, 2, 1 - 902.