Patara Westwood, 1840

Bahder, Brian W., Myrie, Wayne, Helmick, Ericka E. & Bartlett, Charles R., 2024, A new species of planthopper in the genus Patara (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea: Derbidae) from central Jamaica, Zootaxa 5463 (3), pp. 429-440 : 432

Genus Patara Westwood, 1840

Type species: Patara guttata Westwood, 1840

Amended Diagnosis. Small (less than 5 mm) fragile forms. Head rounded in lateral view, frons weakly projected before eyes; in frontal view frons greatly compressed, usually with lateral margins of frons in close contact. Vertex triangular, strongly narrowed anteriorly (broader in females than males). Sensory pits on head absent (may be vestigial on the frons). Antennae sexually dimorphic with scape small, pedicle greatly elongated and usually compressed (length exceeding margin of head); male antennae longer than female. Forewings with clavus closed (i.e., Pcu + A1 reaching wing margin before reaching CuP), and CuA not forked before m-cu crossvein and cell C5 (when present) in form of an open marginal cell (no closed ‘procubital cell’). Pcu in clavus bearing tubercles. Pygofer opening lacking medioventral process. Gonostyli elongate and broadly spatulate with large, bifid process on dorsal margin. Aedeagus asymmetrical, shaft more or less straight, capped with short bulbous flagellum, usually with a large process arising near base of flagellum and a variable number of additional processes. Anal segment short, not exceeding gonostyli.