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Dear Dr. Prando and colleagues:
Thanks for revising your manuscript based on the concerns raised by the reviewers. I now believe that your manuscript is suitable for publication. Congratulations! I look forward to seeing this work in print, and I anticipate it being an important resource for groups studying cicadellid systematics and Portanini taxonomy. Thanks again for choosing PeerJ to publish such important work.
Best,
-joe
[# PeerJ Staff Note - this decision was reviewed and approved by David Roberts, a PeerJ Section Editor covering this Section #]
Dear Dr. Prando and colleagues:
Thanks for submitting your manuscript to PeerJ. I have now received four independent reviews of your work, and as you will see, the reviewers raised some concerns about the research. Despite this, these reviewers are very optimistic about your work and the potential impact it will have on research studying cicadellid systematics and Portanini taxonomy. Thus, I encourage you to revise your manuscript, accordingly, taking into account all of the concerns raised by the three reviewers.
Please note that Reviewers 1, 3 and 4 kindly provided marked-up versions of your manuscript.
Good luck with your revision,
-joe
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This contribution provides descriptions of two new species, new records, and illustrations of all species of Portanini known from Peru. This will be a very useful reference for future work on the group. The species descriptions and illustrations are excellent. The material examined section is detailed and the appropriate data is reported. Please see notes on the attached .pdf with suggestions for changes and some minor points to address.
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It is a very valuable contribution to the knowledge of the leafhoppers from Peru. This contribution implies that another researchers can include more new taxa based in the information provides in this manuscript.
Undoubtedly a great contribution to the knowledge of the leafhoppers of Peru. The manuscript so designed allowes to the youngest to enter to the exciting world of taxonomy, particularly of the family Cicadellidae of the Neotropics, an underexplored region for insects, specially in the megadiverse Peru!
Some corrections in the text are necessary, which are marked up in the sent file.
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The manuscript is a good contribution to the knowledge of Portanini. Descriptions are precise and illustrations have good quality. However, it is necessary a new attentive reading to correct some minor errors in the text.
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The ms is excellent and suitable for publication with a few minor changes as indicated in the attached revised file.
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