CICADELLINAE: PART 2. NEW WORLD CICADELLINI 293 
SPECIES OF DASMEUSA 
flavescens Metcalf, 1965a:261 (new name). Brazil. 
lurida (Signoret), 1853c:662 (Tettigonia) (preoccupied). 
mendica, n. sp. French Guiana. 
pauperata (Fabricius), 1803a:71 (Cicada). The Guianas. 
KEY TO SPECIES OF DASMEUSA 
(D. flavescens Metcalf not included) 
Forewings with distinct orange anteapical spot; male with a pair of ante- 
Bpreelsventraprocesses on: acdeagus.: in winees «fe age ae estes mendica, n. sp. 
Forewings without anteapical spot; male without anteapical processes on 
eC MOST MOR Peer estes ce is. i injacds seahunned onl pauperata (Fabricius) (fig. 238) 
Dasmeusa mendica, NEW SPECIES 
FiGuRE 237 
Length of male 10.1-10.4 mm, of female 9.9-10.5 mm. Head with median 
length of crown compared to width varying as in generic description. Male 
pygofer with only a few microsetae dispersed among macrosetae. Aedeagus 
short, with a pair of widely spaced laterobasal processes, triangular in lateral 
view, extending laterally and ventrally, and a pair of close-set anteapical ven- 
tral angular processes, gonopore dorsoapical. Paraphyses with rami longer 
than stalk, divergent apically, but much less so than in D. pauperata (F.). 
Color pale yellowish, forewings translucent with a transverse distinct orange 
spot across bases of apical cells. 
Other characters as in generic description. 
Holotype and one additional male and one female, Maroni River, French 
Guiana (NCS). One female, Essequebo River, Moraballi Creek, August 24, 
1929, Oxford University Expedition (BM). One male, St. Jean du Maroni, 
French Guiana, from the Le Moult collection (ZIMH). 
Dasmeusa mendica, n. sp., is more slender and delicate than D. pauperata from 
which it differs in the length of the base of the paraphyses relative to the rami 
(shorter than rami in mendica) as well as in the characters in the key. 
Ss 
Kenge Agr 240m 
ie 
239i ee cae a 
FIGURES 239, 240.—239, Dasmeusa flavescens Metcalf (from lectotype of D. lurida 
(Signoret)). 240, Dasmeusa sp. (from specimen from Bartica, British 
Guiana). 
