title: First Immature of the New World Treehopper tribe Thuridini (Hemiptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae) with a new synonym, a new combination, and a new country record.
abstract: The species Thuris depressus Sakakibara (1975) is proposed as a syn. n. of Thuris binodosus (Goding 1926), comb. n. The distribution of the genus is expanded from Brazil and Peru to include Ecuador and Venezuela, and the immature is described based on 75 characters.
authors.affiliation: USDA/ARS Systematic Entomology Lab, c/o NMNH MRC-168, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.
authors.forename: Stuart H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: McKamey
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
authors.forename: Mitchell J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Porter
keywords: Ecuador; Parantonae; Thuris; Venezuela; comb. n.; nymph; syn. n.