Tico, Bahder & Zumbado Echavarria & Barrantes Barrantes & Helmick & Bartlett, 2021

Bahder, Brian W., Zumbado Echavarria, Marco A., Barrantes Barrantes, Edwin A., Helmick, Ericka E. & Bartlett, Charles R., 2021, A new genus and two new species of planthopper in the tribe Cenchreini (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Derbidae) from lowland tropical rainforest in Costa Rica, Zootaxa 4908 (3), pp. 369-392 : 374

Key to species of Tico gen. n.

1. Forewing black spot at base and 4 large blacks spots distally on trailing margin (the dorsal part of the wing when in repose); head with dark marking anterior to eyes................................................................... 2

-. Forewing without series of 4 dark spots, markings limited to well-separated single spots (including one in coastal cell, one near fork of CuA, and one in cell C3, proximad of an intramedial crossvein; head in front of eyes pale.................................................................................................... T. emmettcarri gen et. sp. n.

2. Ventral processes of first gonapophysis of ovipositor not twisted, apex of dorsal process angled dorsad, bifid; pregenital plate pyramid-shaped....................................................................... T. sororius (Fennah)

-. Ventral processes of first gonapophysis twisted into near-helix, apex of dorsal process not bifid, hooked anteriorly; pregenital plate spade-shaped........................................................... T. pseudosororius gen. et. sp. n.