The identity of the oriental leafhopper genera Cyrta Melichar and Placidus Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Stegelytrinae), with description of a new genus Author Wei, Cong Author Zhang, Yalin text Zootaxa 2008 1793 1 27 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.182576 438540c0-da6e-42c6-9c0d-acd4d7ccd907 1175-5326 182576 Cyrta hirsuta Melichar ( Fig. 1 ) Cyrta hirsuta Melichar, 1902 : 136 –137 (61–62), pl. V, Figs 10, 10 a–b Description. Body length: ɗ, 6.5mm . Body colour generally dark brown; vertex with blackish brown apically ( Fig. 1 A); face pale yellow, anteclypeus with pair of stout brown setae apically ( Fig. 1 B). Head and thorax with somewhat dense pale short setae. Scutellum with some short tufts of black setae laterally ( Fig. 1 A). Male pygofer with distal margin broadly rounded in lateral view ( Fig. 1 D); subgenital plate slightly extending beyond apex of pygofer side, apex acute in ventral view ( Figs 1 D, G). Aedeagal shaft with dense tubercles laterally, apex strongly narrowed distally in ventral view ( Figs 1 C, F, L). Xth segment moderately long ( Fig. 1 I). Material examined. Syntype , CHINA : 1ɗ ( MMB ), Sichuan Prov., 12. VI. 93 , Collection Dr. L. Melichar. Remarks. This species was originally recorded from three specimens ( syntypes ) in the following way: ‘West-China: Sze’-Chuan, Ta-tsien-lu, 2.VI.93 , 3ɗ von POTANIN gesammelt.’. The male genitalia of this species are figured here for the first time.