First record of the genus Eleazara Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae, Ledrinae) in Malaysia, with description of a new species
Author
Huang, Weijian
Author
Zhang, Yalin
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-12-19
4532
3
434
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journal article
27740
10.11646/zootaxa.4532.3.7
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Eleazara aedificatura
Distant, 1908
Eleazara aedificatura
Distant, 1908
: 182
Description.
“Ferruginous-brown; vertex of head shorter than breadth between eyes, its anterior area strongly granulose; pronotum strongly granulose on posterior area, more finely so on lateral areas, which are foveately depressed; a faint central longitudinal carination on disk, a short oblique ridge between eyes and two widely separated somewhat large discal flattened tubercles; scutellum elevated in a laminate recurved process; tegmina with rather more than basal half granulose and rugose, a somewhat prominent tubercle on clavus, apical area smooth with the veins elevated and prominent; tip of face at anterior margin of head black; anterior legs strongly granulose, intermediate and posterior tibiae strongly grooved. Length incl. tegm.
♀
15 millim.” (
Distant, 1908
)
Distribution.
India
(
Assam
).
Male.
Unknown.
Diagnosis.
This species resembles
E. yangi
Cai & He
but differs in having a testaceous body and scutellum length shorter than head length.