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Issue: Vol. 5686 No. 2: 27 Aug. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-08-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5686.2.2
Page range: 198-210
Abstract views: 149
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Review of the microleafhopper subgenus Matsumurasca (Solanasca) Ghauri, 1974 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Costa Rica, with description of a new species and its population dynamics in papaya crops

Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica; Escuela de Ciencias Agrarias; Laboratorio Entomología Agrícola; Avenida 1; Calle 9; Heredia; Costa Rica
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Instituto de Biología; Departamento de Zoología; Colección Nacional de Insectos; Cto. Zona Deportiva S/N; Ciudad Universitaria; C.P. 04510; CDMX; Mexico; Illinois Natural History Survey; Prairie Research Institute; University of Illinois; 1816 S. Oak Street; 61820; Champaign; Illinois; USA
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco; Calz. del Hueso 1100; Coapa; Villa Quietud; Coyoacán; 04960 Ciudad de México; CDMX; Mexico
Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica; Escuela de Ciencias Agrarias; Laboratorio Entomología Agrícola; Avenida 1; Calle 9; Heredia; Costa Rica
Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica; Escuela de Ciencias Agrarias; Laboratorio Entomología Agrícola; Avenida 1; Calle 9; Heredia; Costa Rica
Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica; Escuela de Ciencias Agrarias; Laboratorio Entomología Agrícola; Avenida 1; Calle 9; Heredia; Costa Rica; Programa de Biotecnología Vegetal y Recursos Genéticos para el Fitomejoramiento (BIOVERFI); Escuela de Ciencias Agrarias; Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica; Heredia; Costa Rica
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha Typhlocybinae Empoascini solana-group Central America

Abstract

The taxonomy of the microleafhopper subgenus Matsumurasca (Solanasca) Ghauri, 1974 in Costa Rica is revised. A new species, Matsumurasca (Solanasca) judokuatare Arrieta-Arrieta & Pinedo-Escatel sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Puntarenas and Limón provinces. The new species can be distinguished from other Neotropical species by the following combination of features: rounded anterior margin of crown, apex of aedeagus wide and square-shaped, gonoduct medially wide, and basal aedeagal processes slender. In addition, M. laceiba (Ross & Cunningham, 1960) and M. stevensi (Young, 1953) are reported for the first time from Costa Rica and Mexico, respectively. A key to all species of Matsumurasca known to occur in Costa Rica and a distributional map are provided. The population dynamics of the new taxon in papaya crops throughout fourteen months of monitoring is discussed.

 

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How to Cite

Arrieta-Arrieta, L.A., Pinedo-Escatel, J.A., Blanco-Rodríguez, E., Martínez, A.V., Herrera, A.G. & Molina-Bravo, R. (2025) Review of the microleafhopper subgenus Matsumurasca (Solanasca) Ghauri, 1974 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Costa Rica, with description of a new species and its population dynamics in papaya crops. Zootaxa, 5686 (2), 198–210. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5686.2.2