Tico Bahder & Bartlett 2021

Zumbado Echavarria, Marco A., Barrantes Barrantes, Edwin A., Helmick, Ericka E., Bartlett, Charles R. & Bahder, Brian W., 2022, A new species of planthopper in the genus Tico (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Derbidae) on palms in Costa Rica, Zootaxa 5209 (2), pp. 187-198 : 190

Genus Tico Bahder & Bartlett 2021

Type species: Tico emmettcarri Bahder & Bartlett 2021 , by original designation.

Amended Diagnosis. (Revised from Bahder et al. 2022.) Small (~2.5–3.0 mm), cenchreine derbids. Vertex roughly triangular or trapezoidal, widest posteriorly, disc concave, lateral margins keeled, with transverse carinae near fastigium. Frons moderately compressed (length at midline about 4x dorsal width), median carina absent, lateral carinae keeled. Forewing with ScP branch preceding apex of clavus (resulting in long marginal cell). Pygofer opening with distinct lateral expansions, ventral margin of opening without medioventral lobe. Gonostyli long and spatulate, apex rounded, with a medially directed dorsal lobe near midlength (or beyond; medial lobes absent on ventral margin) and sclerotized process on inner margin. Aedeagus nearly bilaterally symmetrical, lacking projections on shaft, except apically, terminating in complex array of retrorse processes. Anal tube elongate, in lateral view ventral margin weakly concave, apex inflected downward, apex truncate; in dorsal view broadly spatulate.

Distribution. Costa Rica, Trinidad, Venezuela ( Fennah 1952, Bahder et al. 2021).

Plant associations. Asplundia sp. (Cyclanthaceae) , Heliconia sp. (Heliconiaceae) Geonoma sp. (Arecaceae) .