Review of the Oriental planthopper genus Flata Fabricius (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae) with the description of five new species Author Peng, Ling-Fei Author Fletcher, Murray J. Author Zhang, Ya-Lin text Zootaxa 2012 3399 1 22 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.281824 19d4224a-8697-45ea-b361-6c396a43eb69 1175-5326 281824 8. Flata stellaris ( Walker, 1851 ) ( Fig. 1 D) Cicada ocellata Fabricius, 1775 : 682 , preoccupied by Cicada ocellata De Geer, 1773 Flata ocellata ( Fabricius), Fabricius, 1798 : 517 Poeciloptera stellaris Walker, 1851 : 453 Poeciloptera argiolus Stål, 1855 : 191 , synonymised by Stål, 1862 : 489 Flata stellaris (Walker) , Kirby, 1891 : 155 Cryptoflata flavoguttata Melichar, 1902 : 21 , synonymised by Medler, 2006 : 240 Flata ocellata (Fabricius) , Distant, 1906 , fig. 225 Cryptoflata flavoguttata Melichar, 1902 : 21 , synonymised by Melichar, 1923 : 41 Flata stellaris var. flavoguttata (Melichar) , Metcalf, 1957 : 177 Type . Holotype of P. stellaris (not examined), no abdomen, Africa (no locality) ( BMNH ). Holotype of P. argiolus (not examined), no abdomen, no locality ( NHRS ). Lectotype of C. flavoguttata Ƥ, (not examined), designated by Medler, 1986a : 48, Sri Lanka ( ZMHB ). This species was not examined by the authors. The following description is from Distant (1906) . “Body and legs pale ochraceous or greenish-ochraceous, the pronotum and mesonotum sometimes not concolorous; tegmina very pale virescent, veins a little darker, interspersed with small dull sanguineous spots, extreme edges of costal and posterior margins pale ochraceous; wings creamy-white; tegmina with the clavus somewhat coarsely granulose, the costal membrane slightly cretaceously tomentose, the apical margin a little sinuate before posterior angle. Length excludes tegmina 8 mm ; tegmina spread 23 mm ”. The male genitalia of a plesiotype ( Fig. 1 D) is reproduced from Medler (2006) . Distribution. India ; Indonesia ; Sri Lanka . No Remarks.