Melanastera sp.

Rendón-Mera, Diana Isabel, Burckhardt, Daniel, Durán, Juliana, Ocampo, Valentina & Vargas-Fonseca, Sergio Andrés, 2024, The jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) in Urban Green Spaces of Bogotá (Colombia), with descriptions of two new species and redescription of Mastigimas colombianus Burckhardt, Queiroz and Drohojowska, ZooKeys 1209, pp. 199-230 : 199-230

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1209.117368
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scientific name	Melanastera sp.
status

Treatment

* Melanastera sp.

Material examined.

Chapinero: • 1 ♀; Quebrada La Vieja ; 4.6474, – 74.0447; 2785 m; 20. vi. 2017; J. Duran leg.; Miconia elaeoides ( Melastomataceae ); MPUJ_ENT GoogleMaps .

Distribution.

Colombia: Bogotá.

Host plant.

Unknown.

Comments.

The single female appears to belong to an undescribed species of Melanastera, a predominantly Neotropical genus associated with Melastomataceae , Annonaceae , and other plant families ( Burckhardt et al. 2024). This is the first record of the genus from Colombia.

Mastigimatidae Bekker-Migdisova, 1973