Emergency Surgery in the Elderly: Could Laparoscopy Be Useful in Frailty? A Single-Center Prospective 2-Year Follow-Up in 120 Consecutive Patients

Background: the general population is aging across the world. Therefore, even surgical interventions in the elderly—in particular those involving emergency surgical admissions—are becoming more frequent. The elderly population is often frail (in multiple physiological systems, this is often defined as age-related cumulative decline). This study involved a 2-year follow-up evaluation of frail elderly patients treated with urgent surgical intervention at Santa Maria Regina della Misericordia Hospital, General Surgery Department, in Adria (Italy). Method: a prospective, single-center, 2-year follow-up study of 120 patients &gt;65 years old, treated at our department for surgical abdominal emergencies. We considered co-morbidities (ASA—American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification System—score), type of surgery (laparoscopy, laparotomy or converted), frailty score, mortality, and complications at 30 days and at 2 years. Conclusions: 70 (58.4%) patients had laparoscopy, 49 (40.8) had laparotomy, and in 1 (0.8%) case, surgery was converted from laparoscopy to laparotomy. Mortality strictly depends on the type of surgery (laparotomy vs. laparoscopy), complications during recovery, and a lower Fried frailty criteria score, on average. The long-term follow-up can be a useful tool to highlight a safer surgical approach, such as laparoscopy, in frail elderly patients. We consider the laparoscopic approach feasible in emergency situations, with similar or better outcomes than laparotomy, especially in frail elderly patients.</jats:p

Goodbye Hartmann trial: a prospective, international, multicenter, observational study on the current use of a surgical procedure developed a century ago

Background: Literature suggests colonic resection and primary anastomosis (RPA) instead of Hartmann's procedure (HP) for the treatment of left-sided colonic emergencies. We aim to evaluate the surgical options globally used to treat patients with acute left-sided colonic emergencies and the factors that leading to the choice of treatment, comparing HP and RPA. Methods: This is a prospective, international, multicenter, observational study registered on ClinicalTrials.gov. A total 1215 patients with left-sided colonic emergencies who required surgery were included from 204 centers during the period of March 1, 2020, to May 31, 2020. with a 1-year follow-up. Results: 564 patients (43.1%) were females. The mean age was 65.9 ± 15.6&nbsp;years. HP was performed in 697 (57.3%) patients and RPA in 384 (31.6%) cases. Complicated acute diverticulitis was the most common cause of left-sided colonic emergencies (40.2%), followed by colorectal malignancy (36.6%). Severe complications (Clavien-Dindo ≥ 3b) were higher in the HP group (P &lt; 0.001). 30-day mortality was higher in HP patients (13.7%), especially in case of bowel perforation and diffused peritonitis. 1-year follow-up showed no differences on ostomy reversal rate between HP and RPA. (P = 0.127). A backward likelihood logistic regression model showed that RPA was preferred in younger patients, having low ASA score (≤ 3), in case of large bowel obstruction, absence of colonic ischemia, longer time from admission to surgery, operating early at the day working hours, by a surgeon who performed more than 50 colorectal resections. Conclusions: After 100&nbsp;years since the first Hartmann's procedure, HP remains the most common treatment for left-sided colorectal emergencies. Treatment's choice depends on patient characteristics, the time of surgery and the experience of the surgeon. RPA should be considered as the gold standard for surgery, with HP being an exception

Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil: setting the baseline knowledge on the animal diversity in Brazil

The limited temporal completeness and taxonomic accuracy of species lists, made available in a traditional manner in scientific publications, has always represented a problem. These lists are invariably limited to a few taxonomic groups and do not represent up-to-date knowledge of all species and classifications. In this context, the Brazilian megadiverse fauna is no exception, and the Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil (CTFB) (http://fauna.jbrj.gov.br/), made public in 2015, represents a database on biodiversity anchored on a list of valid and expertly recognized scientific names of animals in Brazil. The CTFB is updated in near real time by a team of more than 800 specialists. By January 1, 2024, the CTFB compiled 133,691 nominal species, with 125,138 that were considered valid. Most of the valid species were arthropods (82.3%, with more than 102,000 species) and chordates (7.69%, with over 11,000 species). These taxa were followed by a cluster composed of Mollusca (3,567 species), Platyhelminthes (2,292 species), Annelida (1,833 species), and Nematoda (1,447 species). All remaining groups had less than 1,000 species reported in Brazil, with Cnidaria (831 species), Porifera (628 species), Rotifera (606 species), and Bryozoa (520 species) representing those with more than 500 species. Analysis of the CTFB database can facilitate and direct efforts towards the discovery of new species in Brazil, but it is also fundamental in providing the best available list of valid nominal species to users, including those in science, health, conservation efforts, and any initiative involving animals. The importance of the CTFB is evidenced by the elevated number of citations in the scientific literature in diverse areas of biology, law, anthropology, education, forensic science, and veterinary science, among others

Propetes Prando & Gonçalves & Takiya 2017

&lt;i&gt;Propetes&lt;/i&gt; Walker, 1851 &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Type-species:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;P. compressa&lt;/i&gt; Walker, 1851, by monotypy.&lt;/p&gt;Published as part of &lt;i&gt;Prando, Jádila Santos, Gonçalves, Clayton Corrêa &amp; Takiya, Daniela Maeda, 2017, On the wasp-mimicking sharpshooter genus Propetes Walker, 1851 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae): description of a new species, proposal of a new synonymy, and distributional notes, pp. 165-175 in Zootaxa 4281 (1)&lt;/i&gt; on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4281.1.15, &lt;a href="http://zenodo.org/record/816037"&gt;http://zenodo.org/record/816037&lt;/a&gt

Propetes Prando, Gonçalves & Takiya, 2017, sp. nov.

Key to species of &lt;i&gt;Propetes&lt;/i&gt; &lt;p&gt; (females of &lt;i&gt;P. sakakibara&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;sp. nov.&lt;/b&gt; unknown)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;1 Female............................................................................................. 2&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;- Male............................................................................................... 3&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; 2(1) Crown and pronotum with distinct yellow stripes (Takiya et al. 1999; fig. 7). Posterior margin of abdominal sternite VII with slightly rounded median lobe (Takiya et al. 1999; fig. 1). Body length from 13.2 to 14.0 mm............. &lt;i&gt;Propetes schmidti&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; - Crown and pronotum without distinct yellow stripes (Fig. 7). Posterior margin of abdominal sternite VII with distinct subquadrate median lobe, slightly longer than lateral lobe (Fig. 19). Body length 15.0 to 18.0 mm.............. &lt;i&gt;Propetes triquetra&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; 3(1) Crown with distinct median longitudinal yellow stripe extending from apex to about midlength (Takiya et al. 1999; fig. 9). Aedeagus with shaft longer than atrial process; atrial process bifid (Young 1968; fig. 191f‒ 191g)........ &lt;i&gt;Propetes schmidti&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;- Crown completely dark-brown or with anterior half yellow. Aedeagus with shaft shorter than atrial process; atrial process trifid (Figs 14‒15, 17‒18).................................................................................. 4&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; 4(3) Connective anterior margin with distinct median rounded lobe (Fig. 16). Aedeagus atrial process, in lateral view, with ventral ramus short (approximately one-tenth of whole process length) and distance from apices of dorsal rami longer than length of one ramus (Fig. 18)...................................................................... &lt;i&gt;Propetes triquetra&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; - Connective anterior margin straight, without median lobe (Fig. 11). Aedeagus atrial process, in lateral view, with ventral ramus long (approximately one-third of whole process length) and apices of dorsal rami distant from each other for at most the length of one ramus (Figs 12‒13)....................................................... &lt;i&gt;Propetes sakakibara&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;sp. nov.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Published as part of &lt;i&gt;Prando, Jádila Santos, Gonçalves, Clayton Corrêa &amp; Takiya, Daniela Maeda, 2017, On the wasp-mimicking sharpshooter genus Propetes Walker, 1851 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae): description of a new species, proposal of a new synonymy, and distributional notes, pp. 165-175 in Zootaxa 4281 (1)&lt;/i&gt; on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4281.1.15, &lt;a href="http://zenodo.org/record/816037"&gt;http://zenodo.org/record/816037&lt;/a&gt

Propetes triquetra Fabricius 1803

&lt;i&gt;Propetes triquetra&lt;/i&gt; (Fabricius, 1803) &lt;p&gt;(Figs 5&ndash;8, 16&ndash;26)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Length (mm).&lt;/b&gt; Males 9.4 &lt;b&gt;&ndash;&lt;/b&gt; 15.0. Females 15.0 &lt;b&gt;&ndash;&lt;/b&gt; 18.0.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;External morphology.&lt;/b&gt; External morphological characters as in generic description (Young 1968: 204‒205).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Male genitalia&lt;/b&gt;. Male genitalia characters as in redescriptions and illustrations by Schr&ouml;der (1957) and Young (1968) (Takiya &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. 2006).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Female genitalia&lt;/b&gt;. Abdominal sternite VII, in ventral view, subrectangular, approximately 1.5 times wider than long; lateral margins parallel; ventral surface without setae; posterior margin with prominent broad subquadrate median lobe, slightly longer than lateral lobes (Fig. 19). Sternite VIII with two sclerotized regions (Fig. 20). Pygofer, in lateral view, well produced posteriorly; lobe surface with few setae on ventral and posterior margins; posterior margin rounded (Fig. 21). First valvifer, in lateral view, with anterior margin obliquely rectilinear; posterior margins almost acute (Fig. 22). First valvula, in lateral view, with dorsal sculptured area present on apical three-fifths, formed mostly by scale-like processes arranged in oblique lines; ventral sculptured area restricted to apical portion, formed mostly by scale-like processes; preapical region with ventral margin with small denticles; apex acute (Figs 22‒23). Second valvifer, in lateral view, higher than wide; group of setae present on median portion near posterior margin (Fig. 25). Second valvula, in lateral view, regularly broadened beyond basal curvature; dorsal margin with about 45 separated teeth, each approximately subquadrate, becoming gradually smaller, angulate, and more closed spaced towards apex; preapical region with ventral margin with distinct protuberance; apices narrowly rounded (Figs 25‒26). Third valvula, in lateral view, with basal half narrow and apical half distinctly expanded; apex rounded (Fig. 24).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Notes.&lt;/b&gt; The description and photographs provided herein for the female of &lt;i&gt;P. triquetra&lt;/i&gt; are based on the association of males and females from Santo Antonio do Tau&aacute;, Par&aacute; State, Brazil. This is the only locality represented among studied material where both males and females of Amazonian &lt;i&gt;Propetes&lt;/i&gt; were collected. This particular female of &lt;i&gt;P. triquetra&lt;/i&gt; (as well as, other females listed in the examined material below from Eastern Amazonia) agree with the external morphology of the holotype of &lt;i&gt;P. compressa&lt;/i&gt; and lectotype of &lt;i&gt;P. trimaculata&lt;/i&gt;, including the shape of the abdominal sternite VII. Dissections of the genitalia of these female specimens did not reveal any diagnostic difference to separate them in different species and, for this reason, the female genitalia of these primary types were spared from dissection. So it is most probable that no morphological differences are found in females of &lt;i&gt;P. triquetra&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;P. sabakibara&lt;/i&gt; and some female specimens treated herein as &lt;i&gt;P. triquetra&lt;/i&gt; could in fact be &lt;i&gt;P. sakakibara&lt;/i&gt;. Nevertheless, until more Amazonian &lt;i&gt;Propetes&lt;/i&gt; females are available for study and show reliable diagnostic characters to differentiate these two species, we prefer to consider all available females from Eastern Amazonia (Par&aacute; and Mato Grosso states, see discussion below on geographic distribution), including primary female types of &lt;i&gt;P. compressa&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;P. trimaculata&lt;/i&gt;, as conspecific with &lt;i&gt;P. triquetra&lt;/i&gt; males. Thus, under the Principle of Priority of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999), the valid name for this species is &lt;i&gt;P. triquetra&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Material examined. BRAZIL: 1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo;BRASIL: GO[Tocantins]/ Ilha do Bananal / Rio Javar&eacute; [= Rio Java&eacute;s], 200m / 14-19.ix.1985 / V.O. Becker col.&rdquo;; DZRJ. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &female; [lectotype of &lt;i&gt;Propetes trimaculata&lt;/i&gt;] &ldquo;Cuyab&aacute; Matto [sic!] Grosso&rdquo;, &ldquo;Typus&rdquo;, &ldquo; Propetes / trimaculata Schmidt / Edm. Schmidt / determ. 1928&rdquo;, &ldquo;Mus. Zool. Polonicum / Warszawa 12/45&rdquo;, &ldquo;Lecto- / typus&rdquo;, MZPW. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &female; &ldquo; BRASIL, PA, Medicilandia / Rod. Transamazonica/ 03&deg;26&rsquo;45&rdquo;S &ndash; 52&deg;56&rsquo;12&rdquo;W &rdquo;; &ldquo; 09.iv.2008. arm luz/ J.A. Rafael, F.F. Xavier F&deg;&rdquo;, INPA. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo; Santo Antonio do Tau&aacute;-PA/ Par&aacute; Br&eacute;zil [= Brazil]/ X.1980 &rdquo;; &ldquo; P. Jauffret &rdquo;; MNHN. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &female; &ldquo; Par&aacute;-Bresil [= Brazil],/ Santo Antonio do Tau&aacute; / 18.V.1982 / J. Jauffret leg.&rdquo;; MNHN. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &female; [holotype of &lt;i&gt;Propetes compressa&lt;/i&gt;] &ldquo; Type &rdquo;; &ldquo;I. Propetes compressa &rdquo;; &ldquo; Par&aacute; &rdquo;; &ldquo;294&rdquo;; NHMUK. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &female; &ldquo; Col&ocirc;nia Rio Branco / Obidos, Par&aacute; / Brasil IX-1953 / F.M. Oliveira &rdquo;; &ldquo; Cole&ccedil;&atilde;o Campus Seabra &rdquo;; MNRJ. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo; Brasil Par&aacute; / Serra Norte / Caldeir&atilde;o / 27-x-1984 / col. Noturna &rdquo;; &ldquo; Brasil Par&aacute; / Marcio Zanuto &rdquo;; MPEG. &lt;b&gt;VENEZUELA: 1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo;KM38. El Dorado-/ Santa Helena BO [Bol&iacute;var State]/ VENEZUELA / 2-IX-57 &rdquo;; &ldquo; G.J. Rosales / col.&rdquo;; MIZA. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo;KM107. El Dorado-/ Santa Helena BO/ VENEZUELA / 520m 13-VIII-57 &rdquo;; &ldquo; G.J. Rosales; F. Fernandes Y.&rdquo;; MIZA. &lt;b&gt;FRENCH GUIANA: 1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo; Guyane Mission / Balachowsky-Gruner / OCT- NOV.1969 &rdquo;; &ldquo; Carbet-Alice Oyapock [Cayenne Arrondissement]/ Guyane 8-NOV-1969 &rdquo;; &ldquo; Pi&egrave;ge Lumineux &rdquo;; MNHN. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo; Il&ecirc; de Touenk&eacute; / 19-21-XI-1975 &rdquo;; &ldquo; ITANI (GUYANES)/ Mission M. Boulard P. / Jauffret et P. Pompanom / Mus&eacute;um PARIS &rdquo;; MNHN.&lt;/p&gt;Published as part of &lt;i&gt;Prando, Jádila Santos, Gonçalves, Clayton Corrêa &amp; Takiya, Daniela Maeda, 2017, On the wasp-mimicking sharpshooter genus Propetes Walker, 1851 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae): description of a new species, proposal of a new synonymy, and distributional notes, pp. 165-175 in Zootaxa 4281 (1)&lt;/i&gt; on pages 168-170, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4281.1.15, &lt;a href="http://zenodo.org/record/816037"&gt;http://zenodo.org/record/816037&lt;/a&gt

Propetes sakakibara Prando & Gonçalves & Takiya 2017, sp. nov.

&lt;i&gt;Propetes sakakibara&lt;/i&gt; sp. nov. &lt;p&gt;(Figs 1&ndash;4, 9&ndash;15)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Length (mm).&lt;/b&gt; Males 13.0 &lt;b&gt;&ndash;&lt;/b&gt; 15.0.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Diagnosis.&lt;/b&gt; Connective anterior margin straight, without median lobe (Fig. 11). Aedeagus symmetrical; shaft shorter than atrial process; pair of atrial processes, each trifurcate, with two dorsal rami subequal in length with apices distant from each other for, at most, length of one ramus, and ventral ramus with length approximately one third of whole process length (Figs 12&ndash;13).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;External morphology.&lt;/b&gt; External morphological characters as in generic description (Young 1968: 204‒205).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Color (holotype).&lt;/b&gt; Dark-brown. Crown, in dorsal view, with two small pale yellow maculae near posterior margin (Fig. 1). Face, in ventral view, dark-brown with two pale yellow maculae on dorsal portion of frons. Pronotum, in lateral view, reddish-brown (Fig. 2). Mesonotum dark-brown; scutellum with yellow apex. Forewing hyaline brown with dark-brown veins (Fig. 1). Legs dark-brown on dorsal surface and reddish-brown on lateral surface; hind tibia reddish-brown on basal half and pale yellow in part of apical half, apex black.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Male genitalia.&lt;/b&gt; Pygofer moderately produced posteriorly; in lateral view, subrectangular; with transverse slightly membranous line dividing basal third from apical two-thirds; microsetae distributed on apical two-thirds; ventral margin with short basal rounded process; posterior margin obliquely truncate (Fig. 9). Subgenital plate, in lateral view, extending to approximately midlength of pygofer, in ventral view, subtriangular; ventral surface and external lateral margin with microsetae (Figs 9‒10). Connective, in dorsal view, approximately triangular; anterior margin straight, without median lobe; dorsal keel present (Fig. 11). Style extending slightly posterior to connective apex; apex truncate (Fig. 11). Aedeagus symmetrical; preatrium well developed; shaft, in lateral view, sigmoid, shorter than atrial processes, in caudoventral view, laterally compressed and with preapical region expanded; pair of atrial processes, each trifurcate, with two dorsal rami robust and subequal in length with apices distant from each other for, at most, length of one ramus, and ventral ramus slender and long with approximately one-third of whole process length (Figs 12‒15).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Female.&lt;/b&gt; Unknown.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Variation found in paratypes.&lt;/b&gt; Color. Crown brown with anterior half yellow and median longitudinal stripe pale yellow. Pronotum, in dorsal view, dark-brown with two small pale yellow maculae near anterior margin (Fig. 3). Thorax, in lateral view, with three distinct pale yellow maculae (Fig. 4). Male genitalia. Aedeagus with dorsal rami of atrial process, in lateral view, not subequal in length, and with apices close together (Figs 14‒15).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Etymology.&lt;/b&gt; This species is named in honor of Dr. Albino M. Sakakibara (retired, Universidade Federal do Paran&aacute;) in recognition of his numerous contributions to Auchenorrhyncha taxonomy. The species epithet is treated as a noun in apposition.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Notes.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Propetes sakakibara&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;sp. nov.&lt;/b&gt; resembles &lt;i&gt;P. triquetra&lt;/i&gt; as follows: (1) crown and pronotum dark-brown or with few yellow maculae (Figs 1, 3); (2) aedeagus with shaft shorter than atrial processes (Figs 13, 15); and (3) aedeagal atrial processes, each trifurcate (Figs 13, 15). However, the new species differs from &lt;i&gt;P. triquetra&lt;/i&gt; mainly by the shape of the connective and aedeagal atrial processes. In &lt;i&gt;P. sakakibara&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;sp. nov.&lt;/b&gt; the atrial process ventral ramus is long, measuring approximately one-third of whole process length and apices of dorsal rami are distant from each other for at most the length of one ramus (Figs 12, 14) and the connective does not have a median anterior lobe (Fig. 11). In &lt;i&gt;P. triquetra&lt;/i&gt; the atrial processes ventral ramus is very small, measuring approximately one-tenth of whole process length and dorsal rami apices are distant from each other for a distance longer than the length of one ramus (Fig. 17‒18) and the connective has a median anterior lobe (Fig. 16).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Material examined. BRASIL:&lt;/b&gt; Holotype male: &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo; BRASIL, AM, Manaus, Rod. AM / 0 10, km50. ZF-2, km24, pr&oacute;ximo/ &agrave; sede CPST, 02&deg;35&rsquo;S; 60&deg;06&rsquo;W.&rdquo;; &ldquo; 4-5.iii.2011. 21-00:00h. Arm. luz/ fixa. J.A. Rafael; J.T. Camara;/ F.F. Xavier Filho leg&rdquo;; INPA. Paratypes: &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo;[Brazil] Rio Branco-AC [Acre State]/ 12-Jan-2004 / Albuquerque, E. S. &rdquo;; &ldquo; Citrus 31&rdquo;; DZUP. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo;[Brazil] Rio Branco-AC [Acre State]/ 12-Jan-2004 / Albuquerque, E. S. &rdquo;; &ldquo; Citrus 78&rdquo;; DZRJ. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo; BRASIL: Rond&ocirc;nia / 62 km S Ariquemes / Fazenda Rancho Grande / 165m. 10.53&deg;S, 62.80&deg;W / 19-29.ix.1996. B.Harris &rdquo;; LACM. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo; BRASIL: Rondonia / Porto Velho / 27-11-1979 / S. Camplell &rdquo;; INPA. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo; BRAZIL, RO 160-350m / vic. CAUCALANDIA[sic! Cacaul&acirc;ndia] / 10deg 32&rsquo;S 62deg 48&rsquo;W/ 28. OCT. 1991 / JOHN R. MACDONALD&rdquo;; USNM. &lt;b&gt;PERU: 2&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo; PERU: Loreto Dept.,/ Exploranapo Campo n R./ Sucussari nr. R. Napo. / 12-19.III-1988 / J. E. Eger, coll.&rdquo;; &ldquo;collected at light&rdquo;; FSCA. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo; PERU: Madre de Dios;/ Rio Tambopata Res; 30 air/ km. SW Pto.Maldonado, 290m. / 6-10.xi.1979 J.B. Heppner / subtropical moist forest&rdquo;; &ldquo;PT5&rdquo;; USNM. &lt;b&gt;VENEZUELA: 1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo;VENEZUELA-TF/ Amazonas / San Carlos de/ Rio Negro / 7-13.xi.1982 &rdquo;; &ldquo; A. Chacom / G. Yapes Gil / col.&rdquo;; MIZA. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo; Venezuela T.F/ Amazonas Dpt/ Rio Negro &rdquo;; &ldquo; S. Carlos de/ R. Negro 65m / 1&deg;55&rsquo;N 67&deg;1&rsquo;W &rdquo;; &ldquo; J. A. Clavijo / J. Demarmels / 4-14-III-84 &rdquo;; MIZA.&lt;/p&gt;Published as part of &lt;i&gt;Prando, Jádila Santos, Gonçalves, Clayton Corrêa &amp; Takiya, Daniela Maeda, 2017, On the wasp-mimicking sharpshooter genus Propetes Walker, 1851 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae): description of a new species, proposal of a new synonymy, and distributional notes, pp. 165-175 in Zootaxa 4281 (1)&lt;/i&gt; on pages 167-168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4281.1.15, &lt;a href="http://zenodo.org/record/816037"&gt;http://zenodo.org/record/816037&lt;/a&gt

Propetes schmidti Melichar 1925

&lt;i&gt;Propetes schmidti&lt;/i&gt; Melichar, 1925 &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Notes.&lt;/b&gt; Based on the observation of a single female of &lt;i&gt;P. schmidti&lt;/i&gt; from Parque Nacional do Cip&oacute;, Jaboticatubas, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, which was attracted to a light sheet (see video available at &lt;goo.gl/ZQkSNc&gt; or by request to authors), it seems apparent that this species exhibits a behavior described by Boulard (1978) as &ldquo;bluffing display&rdquo; found in another wasp-mimicking sharpshooter genus &lt;i&gt;Lissoscarta&lt;/i&gt; St&aring;l, 1869 (Cicadellini). See more details in the discussion below.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Material examined. BRAZIL: 1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo;BRASIL, Amazonas, Coari / rio Orucu, Angelim,/ 5&deg;3&rsquo;33&rdquo;S / 65&deg;14&rsquo;48&rdquo;W,/ 25-26.XI.1992, P. F./ B&uuml;hrnheim &amp; N. O. Aguiar. &rdquo;; &ldquo; Armadilha / Pennsylvania / luz negra BLB&rdquo;; UFAM. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo; BRAZIL: Minas Gerais / Belo Horizonte, UFMG / Esta&ccedil;&atilde;o Ecologica / 9-VI-1998 D. Yanega &rdquo;; &ldquo;PT4&rdquo;; INHS. 2 &male; &ldquo;Caratinga-MG/ Esta&ccedil;&atilde;o Biol&oacute;gica / Brasil- 29/I-3/II/2003 / Mielke e Casagrande leg.&rdquo;; DZUP. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo;[Brazil: S&atilde;o Paulo State] Bebedouro 1999/ Giustolin, T.A. &rdquo;; DZRJ. &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &male; and &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt; &female; &ldquo; Colina, S.P. Brazil / citrus i. vi.1999 / A. H. Purcell, coll.&rdquo;, EMEC. &lt;b&gt;PERU: 1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo; PERU: Loreto Dpt./ Napo River / 50 km upstream of Amazonian confluence/ 22-24 March 2004 / Coll: W. Reeves &rdquo;; DZRJ. &lt;b&gt;VENEZUELA: 1&lt;/b&gt; &male; &ldquo;Venezuela- Bari-/ nas- Reserva Fo-/ restal Ticoporo / 230m 26-29.II.68 &rdquo;; &ldquo; F.Fernandez, Y/ C.J. Rosales &rdquo;; MIZA.&lt;/p&gt;Published as part of &lt;i&gt;Prando, Jádila Santos, Gonçalves, Clayton Corrêa &amp; Takiya, Daniela Maeda, 2017, On the wasp-mimicking sharpshooter genus Propetes Walker, 1851 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae): description of a new species, proposal of a new synonymy, and distributional notes, pp. 165-175 in Zootaxa 4281 (1)&lt;/i&gt; on pages 171-172, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4281.1.15, &lt;a href="http://zenodo.org/record/816037"&gt;http://zenodo.org/record/816037&lt;/a&gt