Melanastera falcata, Serbina & Malenovský & Queiroz & Burckhardt, 2025

Serbina, Liliya Š., Malenovský, Igor, Queiroz, Dalva L. & Burckhardt, Daniel, 2025, Jumping plant-lice of the tribe Paurocephalini (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Liviidae) in Brazil, Zootaxa 5585 (1), pp. 1-164 : 53

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5585.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:23B50316-4772-4269-A877-20F669D946CA

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15269664

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03968780-FFAC-AF43-FF0A-FB577E64FA6C

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Melanastera falcata
status

 

The falcata -group

Description. Adult. Vertex and thorax covered with microscopical setae. Forewing ( Fig. 15G–I View FIGURE 15 ) with small brown dots; pterostigma distinctly expanding towards the middle or apical third. Distal segment of aedeagus lacking ventral process.

Immature. Antenna 10-segmented.

Comments. The group includes two species in Brazil. One is associated with Myristicaceae , while the host family of the other species is unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

SuperFamily

Psylloidea

Family

Liviidae

Genus

Melanastera

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