Neozygina abancayensis Dietrich & Dmitriev 2007, n. sp

Neozygina abancayensis n. sp. (Figs. 1T, 4A–C) Diagnosis. Length of male 3.1 mm. Ground color stramineous, infused with brown; anteclypeus, lateral margin of frontoclypeus, mesonotal triangles, mesosternum, and abdominal terga brown; forewing without distinct markings. Male pygofer (Fig. 4A) with dorsal appendage arising near base, slender, acuminate, elevated and slightly arched above margin, in dorsal view curved slightly laterad, extended to apex of pygofer; ventral appendage arising preapically, well developed, extended dorsomesad. Aedeagus (figs. 4B, C) with preatrium short; shaft slightly compressed, in lateral view sinuate, with pair of subbasal dorsal teeth; paired subbasal processes approximately half length of shaft, divergent from shaft in lateral view, divergent from each other in posterior view at ca. 45° angle; paired distal processes arising near apex, moderately long, slender, extended ventrolaterad; gonopore apical. Material examined. Holotype male, PERU: Abancay, 8 July 1960 (J. Salazar and H. Fernandez, on sugar cane) [NCSU]. Paratype: 1 male, same data [NCSU]. Note. This is the only known South American Neozygina species that lacks an emarginate aedeagal apex. The specific name refers to the type locality.
Published as part of Dietrich, C. H. & Dmitriev, D. A., 2007, Revision of the New World leafhopper genus Neozygina Dietrich & Dmitriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini), pp. 27-42 in Zootaxa 1475 on page 39