''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 achilid planthoppers in the order Hemiptera. There are at least 160 genera and 520 described species in Achilidae. See also * List of Achilidae genera This is a list of 161 genera in the family Achilidae, achilid plan ...

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

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 Baja ...

in Guatemala. The genus is distinguished from similar taxa in the tribe

Plectoderini The Plectoderini are a large tribe of planthoppers in the family Achilidae, erected by Ronald Gordon Fennah in 1950.Fennah RG (1950) A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoridea). ''Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) ...

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