Myxia, Bahder & Bartlett, 2019

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, Zootaxa 5027 (3), pp. 417-428 : 420

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scientific name	Myxia
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Key to the species of Myxia View in CoL (males)

1. Body dark fuscous, vertex bicolored (tannish caudally, fuscous distally), wings patterned, lacking ir crossvein (im also missing); flagellum large bearing four long sclerotized processes.................... Myxia baynardi Bahder & Bartlett, 2021 View in CoL

1’. Body whitish or yellow, vertex pale, not bicolored; wings clear, ir crossvein present................................ 2

2. Body uniformly yellow, face without markings, periandrium with large retrorse spine and two subapical anterior angled spines............................................................... Myxia belinda Bahder & Bartlett, 2019 View in CoL

2’. Body whitish, face with white markings and orange patch traversing median carina................................ 3

3. Aedeagal shaft in ventral view with one fin-shaped process on right lateral side ( Bahder et al. 2019a, fig. 8C), a single process at endosomal apex, medioventral process of pygofer more rounded ( Bahder et al. 2019a, fig. 7B).................................................................................................... Myxia delta ( Kramer, 1979)

3’. Aedeagal shaft with two fin-shaped processes, one on each side ( Figs. 5B View FIGURE 5 , 6C View FIGURE 6 ), two processes at endosomal apex ( Fig. 6D View FIGURE 6 ), medioventral process of pygofer triangular ( Fig. 4B View FIGURE 4 )...................................... Myxia hernandezi sp. n.

References

Bahder, B. W., Bartlett, C. R., Barrantes, E. A. B., Zumbado, M. A. Z., Humphries, A. R., Helmick, E. E. Goss, E. M. & Ascunce, M. S. (2019 a) A new genus and species of cixiid planthopper (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea) from the Reserva Privada el Silencio de Los Angeles Cloud Forest in Costa Rica. Zootaxa, 4701 (1), 65 - 81. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4701.1.5

Kramer, J. P. (1979) Taxonomic study of the planthopper genus Myndus in the Americas (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 105 (3), 301 - 389.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Figure 4. Male terminalia of Myxia hernandezi sp. n.; (A) lateral view, (B), ventral view, and (C) dorsal view.

FIGURE 5. Aedeagus and phallobase of Myxia hernandezi sp. n.: (A) left lateral view, (B), right lateral view, (C) dorsal view, and (D) ventral view.

FIGURE 6. Line art of aedeagus and phallobase of Myxia hernandezi sp. n.: (A) left lateral view, (B), right lateral view, (C) dorsal view, and (D) ventral view.