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Myxia Bahder & Bartlett 2019

  • 1. Universidad de Costa Rica-Sede San Ramón, Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, de la Iglesia el Tremedal 400 mts al Oeste carretera hacia San Pedro, San Ramón, Alajuela, Costa Rica.
  • 2. University of Delaware, Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, 250 Townsend Hall, Newark, DE 19716 - 2160, USA.
  • 3. University of Florida, Department of Entomology and Nematology-Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center; 3205 College Ave., Davie, FL 33314 - 7719, USA.

Description

Genus Myxia Bahder & Bartlett, 2019

Type species: Myxia belinda Bahder & Bartlett, 2019; by monotypy and original designation.

Diagnosis. Vertex longer at midline than wide, median carina present, evanescent distally. Hind tibiae lacking lateral spines (a tribal feature), forecoxae lacking denticle. Medioventral process of pygofer subtriangular. Parameres distally bifid in lateral view, with acute apex in ventral view. Periandrium (≈phallobase) usually ring-like at base of aedeagus, prolonged into a projection of varying form subtending aedeagus. Anal tube short and stout, distally projecting ventrally or ventrocaudally.

Notes

Published as part of Zumbado Echavarria, Marco A., Barrantes Barrantes, Edwin A., Bartlett, Charles R., Helmick, Ericka E. & Bahder, Brian W., 2021, A new speciesof Myxia (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cixiidae) collected on palms from the Reserva Privada el Silencio de Los Angeles Cloud Forest in Costa Rica, pp. 417-428 in Zootaxa 5027 (3) on page 420, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5027.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/5449773

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