Abstract
Neopsis campestris sp. nov. is described and illustrated based on male and female specimens collected on native grassland at the Guartelá State Park, Paraná State, Southern Brazil. New distribution records are presented for three previously known species, Neopsis aurea Takiya & Dietrich, 2017, Neopsis myrceugeniae Takiya & Dietrich, 2017 and Neopsis robusta Linnavuori, 1965, representing the first known records of the subfamily Tartessinae for Paraná State. A distribution map is also provided to illustrate the locality data of specimens studied herein.
Highlights
The leafhopper subfamily Tartessinae Distant, 1908 currently comprises four tribes: Neopsini Linnavuori, 1978 (Neotropical), Stenocotini Kirkaldy, 1906 (Australian), Tartessini Distant, 1908 (Australian, Indomalayan) and Thymbrini Evans, 1936 (Australian)
Neopsini is a poorly known and morphologically enigmatic group which can be distinguished from the other Tartessinae in their relative small body size (> 7 mm); markedly short head, with inconspicuous fronto-lateral sutures; ocelli well below the crown-face transition; absent transverse carina between ocelli; obsolete antennal ledges; accessory setal row between front tibial rows AD and AV; several cucullate setae between the larger macrosetae on hind tibial row; hind wing veins RP and MA confluent distally; and submarginal vein not extended onto jugum (Hamilton, 1983; Takiya & Dietrich, 2017)
Neopsini currently comprises two genera, Lonnia Hamilton, 1983, with two species from Chile, and Neopsis Oman, 1938, which includes eleven previously described species distributed from the Caribbean islands to Southeastern Brazil (Takiya & Dietrich, 2017)
Summary
The leafhopper subfamily Tartessinae Distant, 1908 currently comprises four tribes: Neopsini Linnavuori, 1978 (Neotropical), Stenocotini Kirkaldy, 1906 (Australian), Tartessini Distant, 1908 (Australian, Indomalayan) and Thymbrini Evans, 1936 (Australian). This paper provides the first distribution records of four tartesine species for Paraná State, Southern Brazil (Fig. 1), representing three previously described species, Neopsis aurea Takiya & Dietrich, 2017, Neopsis myrceugeniae Takiya & Dietrich, 2017 and Neopsis robusta Linnavuori, 1965, and a new species, Neopsis campestris sp. 5, 6) with short preapical process, acute and curved dorsally; style (Fig. 8) narrow, preapical lobe moderately developed, not strongly produced posterad; posterior margin of aedeagus
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