taxonID	type	description	language	source
03D887A6FFC5FFAAFF441E0A516F0863.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL EXAMINED Holotype: • ♂, Italy, Lucania (= Basilicata), prov. Matera, Nova Siri, 27. VII. 1957, A. Servadei leg. (MSNV-SER). Other specimens: • 30 ♀♀, Italy, Lucania (= Basilicata), prov. Matera, Nova Siri, 27. VII. 1957 and 28. VII. 1957, A. Servadei leg. (MSNV-SER). • 2 ♂♂, 19 ♀♀, Italy, Calabria, prov. Catanzaro, com. Sellia Marina, Uria, 4. VI. 1959, A. Servadei leg. (MSNV-SER). • 3 ♀♀, Italy, Calabria, prov. Catanzaro, com. Simeri Crichi, Simeri river mouth, 4. VI. 1959, A. Servadei leg. (MSNV-SER). • 1 ♀, Italy, Calabria, prov. Reggio Calabria, Santa Cristina d'Aspromonte, 6. IX. 1959, A. Servadei leg. (MSNV-SER). • 1 ♂, Italy, Basilicata (= Lucania), prov. Matera, Nova Siri, 27. VII. 1957, A. Servadei leg. (MSNB-SER). • 1 ♂, Italy, Calabria, prov. Reggio Calabria, Santa Cristina d'Aspromonte, Torrente Lago bank, 350 m amsl, 38.2487045, 15.9577579, from Artemisia campestris L. subsp. variabilis (Ten.) Greuter, 18. X. 2019, F. Poggi leg. (CFP). • 10 ♂♂, 24 ♀♀, Italy, Calabria, prov. Reggio Calabria, com. San Luca, Fiumara Bonamico, 22 m amsl, 38.1237937, 16.1334567, from Artemisia campestris L. subsp. variabilis (Ten.) Greuter, 27. V. 2023, F. Poggi leg. (CFP).	en	Poggi, Francesco (2025): A new species of Chlorita (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from southern Italy, with redescription of C. antoniana Dlabola, 1959. Zootaxa 5666 (3): 428-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5666.3.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8
03D887A6FFC5FFAAFF441E0A516F0863.taxon	description	REDESCRIPTION Body length. 2.31 – 2.58 mm in males and 2.48 – 2.75 mm in females. It is worth noting that Dlabola (1959), who studied only two male specimens, namely the holotype in the Servadei collection and the paratype in his collection, reports the length of the males as 2.3 – 3.1 mm (Dlabola, 1959); it has been verified that the length of the holotype (kept in the Servadei collection) is 2.33 mm, so the measure of 3.1 mm reported by Dlabola should be that of the paratype in his collection, but no male longer than 2.58 mm has been found among all the specimens studied (15 males); on the other hand, it has been observed that it is frequent to find specimens of C. antoniana parasitized by Diptera Pipunculidae, whose larva causes abnormal swelling and prolongation of the abdomen; since Dlabola used to measure the length of the specimens from the apex of vertex to the tip of abdomen, it could be that the abnormal size of the paratype resulted from parasitization. Coloration. Overall color light green with symmetrical cream colored markings on head, forepart of pronotum, and scutellum; mesonotal triangles slightly lighter; forewings uniformly light green, with apical cells slightly infuscated, without markings or spots; abdomen pale green, with fore margin of tergites dark; legs light green (Figs 1 A – B). Structure. Habitus as in Figs 1 A – B. Head produced, more in female, as wide as pronotum; vertex 1.7 times as wide between the eyes as long medially. Pronotum 2 times in male and 1.7 in female as long as vertex medially. Forewings longer than abdomen, apically rounded; hindwings normally developed. Female sternite VII without distinctive characters. Apodemes of male 2 nd abdominal sternite sac-shaped, convergent, not touching each other, extended just beyond posterior margin of sternite II (Fig. 1 C). Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe rounded. Subgenital plates, connective and styles with typical shape within the genus, without distinctive characters. Anal hooks (Fig. 1 H) smooth, curved upward, with proximal portion (the one before the curvature) approximately 0.7 times as long as distal one, not widened in its middle; distal portion thin, slightly widened and sinuous in its apical third, normally sclerified. Aedeagus (Figs 1 D – E) with preatrium slightly curved dorsad and shaft ventrally gibbous in lateral view, about as long as preatrium, with dorsal raised edge in its middle; in lateral view, dorsal margin of distal half of shaft finely and irregularly serrated; narrow sclerified semicircular laminar expansion extended around gonopore (Fig. 1 F), inclined ventrad and forming approximately 45 ° angle with shaft, its ventral edge with paired spiniform processes slightly curved medially and directed ventrad (Figs 1 F – G).	en	Poggi, Francesco (2025): A new species of Chlorita (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from southern Italy, with redescription of C. antoniana Dlabola, 1959. Zootaxa 5666 (3): 428-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5666.3.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8
03D887A6FFC5FFAAFF441E0A516F0863.taxon	biology_ecology	BIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL DATA Neither Dlabola (1959) nor Servadei (1960) reported information on the host plant, but the author’s research has identified it as Artemisia campestris L. subsp. variabilis (Ten.) Greuter, on which both adults and nymphs were found. The available data is not sufficient to define the number of generations per year; the adults were collected in May, June, July, September, and October; some 5 th instar nymphs were found in May, together with the adults.	en	Poggi, Francesco (2025): A new species of Chlorita (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from southern Italy, with redescription of C. antoniana Dlabola, 1959. Zootaxa 5666 (3): 428-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5666.3.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8
03D887A6FFC5FFAAFF441E0A516F0863.taxon	distribution	DISTRIBUTION C. antoniana was described by Dlabola (1959) based on specimens collected by A. Servadei in Basilicata region (southern Italy), in a locality near the border with Calabria region (Nova Siri). Thereafter, Servadei (1960; 1969) published five other collection sites of this species, all in Calabria region; added to these is the locality “ Fiumara Bonamico ”, reported here, which is the southernmost of those known so far. The species has a distribution that extends from the southern border of the Basilicata region to the southern edge of the Calabria region, except for the western and southern slopes of the Aspromonte Massif, where it seems to be replaced by the new taxon described below, living on the same host plant (Fig. 3 A).	en	Poggi, Francesco (2025): A new species of Chlorita (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from southern Italy, with redescription of C. antoniana Dlabola, 1959. Zootaxa 5666 (3): 428-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5666.3.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8
03D887A6FFC0FFAFFF4419CB562609A0.taxon	description	http: // zoobank. org / urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 96 A 77 B 25 - 6650 - 4 E 82 - 94 B 2 - 37 EF 0 A 04 B 2 BF	en	Poggi, Francesco (2025): A new species of Chlorita (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from southern Italy, with redescription of C. antoniana Dlabola, 1959. Zootaxa 5666 (3): 428-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5666.3.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8
03D887A6FFC0FFAFFF4419CB562609A0.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL EXAMINED Holotype: • ♂, Italy, Calabria, prov. Reggio Calabria, Santa Domenica di Terreti, 630 m amsl, 38.125250, 15.741477, from Artemisia campestris L. subsp. variabilis (Ten.) Greuter, 16. XI. 2018, F. Poggi & E. Castiglione leg. (MSNG). Type locality in Fig. 3 B. Paratypes: • 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, Italy, Calabria, prov. Reggio Calabria, Santa Domenica di Terreti, 630 m amsl, 38.125250, 15.741477, from Artemisia campestris L. subsp. variabilis (Ten.) Greuter, 16. XI. 2018, F. Poggi & E. Castiglione leg. (MSNG). • 1 ♀, ibidem, 16. XI. 2018, F. Poggi & E. Castiglione leg. (CEC). • 4 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, ibidem, 16. XI. 2018, F. Poggi & E. Castiglione leg. (CFP). • 12 ♂♂, 19 ♀♀, ibidem, 12. VI. 2019, F. Poggi & E. Castiglione leg. (CFP). • 44 ♂♂, 43 ♀♀, ibidem, 16. X. 2019, F. Poggi leg. (CFP). • 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, ibidem, 16. X. 2019, F. Poggi leg. (CEC). • 8 ♂♂, 15 ♀♀, ibidem, 8. X. 2020, F. Poggi leg. (CFP). • 1 ♂, ibidem, 565 m, 12. VI. 2019, 38.132056, 15.752825, F. Poggi leg. (CFP). • 3 ♂♂, Italy, Calabria, prov. Reggio Calabria, Santa Cristina d'Aspromonte, Torrente Lago bank, 350 m amsl, 38.2487045, 15.9577579, from Artemisia campestris L. subsp. variabilis (Ten.) Greuter, 18. X. 2019, F. Poggi leg. (CFP). • 1 ♂, ibidem, 5. X. 2020, F. Poggi leg. (CFP). • 10 ♂♂, 15 ♀♀, Italy, Calabria, prov. Reggio Calabria, com. Montebello Jonico, Lamia, 951 m amsl, 38.037095, 15.764319, from Artemisia campestris L. subsp. variabilis (Ten.) Greuter, 7. X. 2020, F. Poggi leg. (CFP). • 4 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, Calabria, prov. Reggio Calabria, Condofuri, Fiumara di Condofuri, 225 m amsl, 37.9931815, 15.8703868, from Artemisia campestris L. subsp. variabilis (Ten.) Greuter, 26. V. 2023, F. Poggi leg. (CFP). • 2 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, Italy, Calabria, prov. Reggio Calabria, Bagaladi, Fiumara di Melito, 369 m amsl, 38.0148842, 15.8165274, from Artemisia campestris L. subsp. variabilis (Ten.) Greuter, 26. V. 2023, F. Poggi leg. (CFP).	en	Poggi, Francesco (2025): A new species of Chlorita (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from southern Italy, with redescription of C. antoniana Dlabola, 1959. Zootaxa 5666 (3): 428-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5666.3.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8
03D887A6FFC0FFAFFF4419CB562609A0.taxon	diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS A Chlorita Fieber, 1872, with the typical habitus of the genus, distinguished from all congeneric species by the following combination of characters: aedeagus with a quadrangular laminar expansion extended around gonopore, bearing two pairs of spiniform processes and one pair of pointed triangular processes; proximal portion of anal hooks (the one before the curvature) approximately 1.7 times as long as distal one.	en	Poggi, Francesco (2025): A new species of Chlorita (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from southern Italy, with redescription of C. antoniana Dlabola, 1959. Zootaxa 5666 (3): 428-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5666.3.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8
03D887A6FFC0FFAFFF4419CB562609A0.taxon	description	DESCRIPTION Body length. 2.18 – 2.43 mm in males and 2.33 – 2.46 mm in females. Coloration. Overall color light green with symmetrical creamcolored markings on head, forepart of pronotum, and scutellum; mesonotal triangles slightly lighter; forewings uniformly light green, with apical cells slightly infuscated, without markings or spots; abdomen pale green, with fore margin of tergites dark; legs light green (Figs 2 A – B). Structure. Habitus as in Figs 2 A – B. Head produced, more in female, as wide as pronotum; vertex 2 times as wide between the eyes as long medially. Pronotum 1.7 times in male and 1.6 in female as long as vertex medially. Forewings longer than abdomen, apically rounded; hindwings normally developed. Female sternite VII without distinctive characters. Apodemes of male 2 nd abdominal sternite sac-shaped, parallel, touching each other, extended to posterior margin of sternite III (Fig. 2 C). Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe rounded. Subgenital plates, connective and styles with typical shape within the genus, without distinctive characters. Anal hooks (Fig. 2 G) smooth, curved upward, with proximal portion (the one before the curvature) approximately 1.7 times as long as distal one, widened in its middle; distal portion thin, sinuous, and very little sclerified. Aedeagus (Figs 2 D – E) ventrally gibbous in lateral view, with dorsal sclerified thickened edge between shaft and preatrium; preatrium straight; shaft shorter than preatrium; wide sclerified quadrangular laminar expansion extended around gonopore, perpendicular to shaft (Fig. 2 F), its ventral edge with paired spiniform processes curved medially and directed ventrad, its dorsal edge with paired triangular pointed processes directed laterad and paired spiniform processes directed cephalad (Figs 2 D – F).	en	Poggi, Francesco (2025): A new species of Chlorita (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from southern Italy, with redescription of C. antoniana Dlabola, 1959. Zootaxa 5666 (3): 428-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5666.3.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8
03D887A6FFC0FFAFFF4419CB562609A0.taxon	etymology	ETYMOLOGY The species is named after the entomologist Elvira Castiglione (Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy), who first conducted research in the type locality of the new taxon, as a sign of deep esteem and friendship, and for the notable contribution to the knowledge of the biodiversity of insects in Aspromonte she is providing.	en	Poggi, Francesco (2025): A new species of Chlorita (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from southern Italy, with redescription of C. antoniana Dlabola, 1959. Zootaxa 5666 (3): 428-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5666.3.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8
03D887A6FFC0FFAFFF4419CB562609A0.taxon	biology_ecology	BIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL DATA C. elvirae lives on Artemisia campestris L. subsp. variabilis (Ten.) Greuter (Fig. 3 C) in xerothermic habitats of the Aspromonte Massif, approximately between 200 and 1000 m amsl (Fig. 3 B). The adults were collected in May, June, October, and November; some nymphs of different instars were found in June, October, and November, together with the adults, so we can assume at least 3 generations per year. In several cases the specimens were collected together with two other Hemiptera species feeding on Artemisia campestris, namely Macropsis calabra (Dlabola, 1963) (Cicadellidae) and Bactericera perrisii Puton, 1876 (Triozidae).	en	Poggi, Francesco (2025): A new species of Chlorita (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from southern Italy, with redescription of C. antoniana Dlabola, 1959. Zootaxa 5666 (3): 428-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5666.3.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8
03D887A6FFC0FFAFFF4419CB562609A0.taxon	distribution	DISTRIBUTION C. elvirae seems to be endemic to the Aspromonte Massif, where it has been collected in five localities at the northern, western and southern slopes; it was found together with C. antoniana only in Santa Cristina d’Aspromonte, the northernmost collection site known so far (Fig. 3 A).	en	Poggi, Francesco (2025): A new species of Chlorita (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from southern Italy, with redescription of C. antoniana Dlabola, 1959. Zootaxa 5666 (3): 428-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5666.3.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8
