Paraclastoptera, Paladini & Thompson & Bell & Cryan, 2020

Paladini, Andressa, Thompson, Vinton, Bell, Adam J. & Cryan, Jason R., 2020, A remarkable new species of spittlebug and a second living New World genus in the Clastopteridae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea), Zootaxa 4852 (3), pp. 361-371 : 364

Paraclastoptera gen. n.

Type species: Paraclastoptera erwini by original designation

Diagnosis: Globose, small insects. Head convex, moderately pilose, wider than long; vertex narrow; postclypeus hexagonal, inflated, without a median carina; pronotum hexagonal with rounded humeral angles and median carina well marked; male pygofer higher than wide with a bilobated process below the anal tube, subgenital plates fused at base and to posterior edge og pygofer; paramere (style) subrectangular with an elongate apex, aedeagus globose and curved.

Description: Head subrectangular, wider than long, convex, moderately pilose; eyes rounded; ocelli closer to each other than to eyes; tylus rectangular; vertex rectangular; antennae inserted in a deep pit on the middle of the eye, basal body of flagellum cylindrical; postclypeus hexagonal, inflated, without a medina carina, rostrum not reaching mesocoxae, pronotum hexagonal with rounded humeral angles and a median carina well marked; scutellum triangular, with a pair of rounded carina on the anterior portion; tegmina rounded with an apical reticule of closed cells, basal portion of second anal vein with a pronounced elevation; tibia with two lateral spines, basal spine smaller, apical spines of tibia disposed in a single row. Male pygofer higher than wide; subgenital plates fused at base, paramere (style) subrectangular with an elongate apex; aedeagus stout with a globose apex, curved dorsally in lateral view. Female pygofer higher than wide; first valvulae of ovipositor long and slender tapering toward apex, basal process inconspicuous, rounded and turned backwards, second valvulae of ovipositor short and wide with dorsal margin undulate.

Etymology: The genus is named for its resemblance to Clastoptera , hitherto the only New World genus of the Clastopteridae .