Neozygina Dietrich & Dmitriev 2006

Catalano, María Inés, Paradell, Susana & Dietrich, Christopher H., 2013, Three new species of Neozygina Dietrich & Dmitriev (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from Argentina, with a key to South American species, Zootaxa 3652 (1), pp. 156-162 : 157

Neozygina Dietrich & Dmitriev 2006

Neozygina Dietrich & Dmitriev, 2006: 147 –148. Type species: Erythroneura ceonothana Beamer, 1934: 287 , designated by Dietrich & Dmitriev, 2006.

Diagnosis. Crown with pair of large brown or black preapical spots; forewing lacking distinct spots or oblique patterns, inner apical cell with base oblique. Male pygofer with dorsal appendage well development, one or more macrosetae present basad of dorsal appendage, ventral appendage present. Style apex truncate, footlike, with only two points, preapical lobe well developed. Connective U or Y-shaped. Aedeagus with dorsal apodeme well developed, usually T-shaped in posterior view, shaft often with paired or unpaired basal or distal process, or both; unpaired basal process, when present, closely appressed to shaft.

Biology. Species of the genus feed on shrubs, grasses or herbaceous vegetation.

Distribution. Western United States to Argentina.