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

Key to the species of Myxia (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

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

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 , 6C ), two processes at endosomal apex ( Fig. 6D ), medioventral process of pygofer triangular ( Fig. 4B )...................................... Myxia hernandezi sp. n.

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.