Mastigimas Enderlein

Burckhardt, Daniel, Queiroz, Dalva L. & Drohojowska, Jowita, 2013, Revision of the neotropical jumping plant-louse genus Mastigimas (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) attacking Cedrela and Toona species (Meliaceae), Zootaxa 3745 (1), pp. 1-18 : 2

Mastigimas Enderlein

Freysuila sensu Schwarz, 1899: 195 , Crawford, 1914: 54, nec Aleman, 1887; type species of Freysuila Aleman : Freysuila dugesii Aleman , by original designation and monotypy.

Mastigimas Enderlein, 1921: 121 ; type species Mastigimas peruanus Enderlein , by original designation and monotypy.

Coelocara Tuthill 1944: 93 ; nomen nudum.

Coelocara Tuthill 1945: 237 ; type species Coelocara schwarzi Tuthill , by original designation; synonymised by Heslop- Harrison 1961: 556.

Description of adult by Crawford (1914), Tuthill (1950), Heslop-Harrison (1961), Brown & Hodkinson (1988) and of immature by Ferris (1928), Burckhardt & Brown (1992), Burckhardt et al. (2011). The body colour in males is usually darker than in females where often a dark pattern stretches from head to forewing base ( Figs 1, 2 ). The pterostigma can be dark or light independent from sex.

Comments. Mastigimas contains five valid described species and three new ones which are described here. In addition there are two species which are also new but which are not described due to insufficient material. The immatures of only five species are known. The species can be identified with following keys.

Figures

FIGURES 1, 2. Habitus of ♀ Mastigimas spp. 1. M. anjosi. 2. M. drepanodis sp. n.