Clastoptera Germar Clastoptera Germar, 1839. Type species: Clastoptera achatina Germar, by subsequent designation (Van Duzee 1917). Diagnosis: Globose, small insects, variable in size and color markings. Head wider than long; vertex narrow; postclypeus without a median carina, inflated; antennae inserted in deep cavities between eyes and postclypeus; pronotum broader than long, transversely wrinkled; scutellum triangular, much longer than wide; tegmina deflected posteriorly, clavus with apex rounded, corium terminating in a hyaline membrane; male pygofer higher than wide with a prominent process just below anal tube, subgenital plates fused to posterior edge of pygofer; paramere (style) strongly hooked dorsally.

Published as part of Paladini, Andressa, Thompson, Vinton, Bell, Adam J. & Cryan, Jason R., 2020, A remarkable new species of spittlebug and a second living New World genus in the Clastopteridae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea), pp. 361-371 in Zootaxa 4852 (3) on page 363, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4409981