''Abas unipunctata'' is a species of achilid

planthopper A planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, a group exceeding 12,500 described species worldwide. The name comes from their remarkable resemblance to leaves and other plants of their environment ...

in the family

Achilidae Achilidae is a family of planthoppers, sometimes called "achilids" in the order Hemiptera Hemiptera (; ) is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising more than 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, pla ...

. It is the only known species in the genus ''Abas''. The genus and species were described by

Ronald Gordon Fennah Ronald Gordon Fennah (1910 – 19 August 1987) was an English entomologist who specialised in the systematics of the Planthopper, Fulgoroidea and worked in the Caribbean Islands and at the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International, Comm ...

in 1950. It was described on the basis of a single female collected at

Senahú Senahú is a town and municipality of the Department of Alta Verapaz in the Republic of Guatemala. The community of San Antonio Senahú was founded by Q'eqchi' Mayan refugees from a series of 19th-century conflicts in the Ishi Mountains of Centr ...

Alta Verapaz Alta Verapaz () is a department in the north central part of Guatemala. The capital and chief city of the department is Cobán. Verapaz is bordered to the north by El Petén, to the east by Izabal, to the south by Zacapa, El Progreso, and ...

in Guatemala. The genus is distinguished from similar taxa in the tribe Plectoderini by the shape of the edges of the

frons Insect morphology is the study and description of the physical form of insects. The terminology used to describe insects is similar to that used for other arthropods due to their shared evolutionary history. Three physical features separate insec ...

and pronotal disk.

References

Insects described in 1950 Insects of Central America Achilidae {{Fulgoromorpha-stub