
CICADELLINAE: PART 2. NEW WORLD CICADELLINI 1061 
remaining apical cells, veins not elevated, distinct, with three closed an- 
teapical cells, with four apical cells and base of fourth more proximal than 
base of third, without an anteapical plexus of veins, texture coriaceous and 
without sculpturing; forewings of female in rest position exceeding apex of 
ovipositor. Hindleg with femoral setal formula. 2:1:1, length of first tarsomere 
slightly greater than combined length of two more distal tarsomeres, and with 
two parallel rows of small setae on plantar surface. 
Male genitalia: Pygofer moderately produced, convex or subtruncate 
apically, with macrosetae (of mixed sizes or uniform) occurring in a diagonal 
group that is somewhat parallel to posteroventral pygofer margin, tergum of- 
ten not sclerotized near midline at base, with a dorsal process extending 
posteriorly but not attaining posterior pygofer margin (ventral process also in 
L. helvola (Melichar)). Plates slender, triangular, not extending posteriorly as 
far as pygofer apex, with uniseriate macrosetae. Style extending posteriorly as 
far as or farther than apex of connective, with or without a preapical lobe, 
apex narrowly rounded or truncate. Connective Y- or V-shaped, with arms 
widely divergent. Aedeagus short, small, without processes or with a basiven- 
tral process extending anteroventrally, shaft with or without rasplike 
processes. Paraphyses absent. 
Female (based on L. signatula (Osborn) and L. apperita, n. sp.) abdominal 
sternum oblong, with posterior margin slightly and broadly convex. Genital 
chamber without sclerites. Ovipositor with first valvifer bearing a triangular 
lobe that extends posteriorly or posteroventrally; second valvulae each bearing 
teeth on dorsal margin in most of portion beyond basal curvature, the 
primaries quadrate, sloping posteriorly, each with a number of minute 
secondaries, with minute dorsal and ventral anteapical denticles, apex acute. 
Pygofer subangularly rounded posterodorsally, with sparse macrosetae paral- 
lel to posteroventral margin. 
Specimens of Lautereria are dark green to blue, the anterior dorsum darker 
and strongly marked with black. 
I take pleasure in naming this genus in honor of Pavel Lauterer, of the 
Moravské:Museum in Brno, Czechoslovakia, who has been most cooperative 
in the course of this work and who, with his family, helped to make a busy 
visit in Czechoslovakia a pleasant memory. 
Lautereria ranges from Colombia to Bolivia and East to central Brazil. 
Species are similar in appearance to those of the new genera Catagonalia and 
Tantogonalia, but the males lack the apical aedeagal processes found in both of 
these genera, and the females are distinctive in the form of the first valvula of 
the ovipositor, described above, a condition not formed in other Cicadellini 
with the possible exception of Aspilodora Melichar (fig. 886), a genus that 
seems otherwise only remotely related. 
My identifications of Cardioscarta helvola Melichar and C. ortunda Melichar 
are based on the respective male lectotypes. The present interpretation of 
}. Cicadella signatula Osborn is based on a study of the holotype female and males 
which I believe to be conspecific with it. 
