Chrysolasia, Moulds, 2003

Moulds, M. S., 2003, An Appraisal of the Cicadas of the Genus Abricta Stål and Allied Genera (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae), Records of the Australian Museum 55, pp. 245-304 : 254

Chrysolasia n.gen.

The single Central American species, Abricta guatemalena , is phylogenetically distant from other Central American cicadas (J. & M. Heath, pers. comm.) and geographically isolated from other species of the Abricta complex of genera, i.e. the Afrotropical Abricta / Abroma / Monomatapa species and the Australian species. This geographic separation is reflected in the cladistic analyses by its sister-group relationship with all other species of the Abricta group. Three apomorphies support the distinctive nature of guatemalena , one non-homoplasious synapomorphies (12.1) and two homoplasious forward changes (15.1 and 22.1) ( Figs. 15–17). Further, three non-homoplasious characters (5.1, 10.1 and 24.1) differentiate the sister clade of guatemalena . These well supported nodes, in addition to three further autapomorphies for guatemalena (golden, hair-like pubescence on the body, apex of upper pygofer lobes straight and pointed, nodal line intersection near midpoint of ulnar cell, and eight tymbal ridges) are considered to provide sufficient justification for the generic separation of guatemalena from other species of the complex.