Three new leafhopper species of Macropsis Lewis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae Eurymelinae: Macropsini) with a key to species from the Indian subcontinent
Author
Viraktamath, C. A.
Department of Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru 560065, India.
Author
Yeshwanth, H. M.
0000-0002-5104-3401
Department of Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru 560065, India. & hmyeshwanth @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5104 - 3401
hmyeshwanth@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-01-08
4903
3
353
372
journal article
9002
10.11646/zootaxa.4903.3.3
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Genus
Macropsis
Lewis
Macropsis
Lewis 1834: 49
.
Type
species:
Iassus prasinus
Boheman.
Tsavopsis
Linnavuori, 1978
b:14
.
Type
species:
Tsavopsis tuberculata
Linnavuori
, synonymy by
Hamilton 1980:904
.
Diagnosis
. Crown V-shaped, face (excluding eyes) slightly longer than broad, frons small and slightly inflated, ocelli usually about 2× as far from midline of face as from eyes; lora small, clearly defined in female, in male varying from clearly defined to very narrow, concealed by prominent lobes of frons; clypellus slightly tapered, sometimes expanded apically; head as wide as pronotum or narrower; pronotum usually slightly declivous, striations variable but always at least slightly oblique; forewings with three subapical cells, veins rarely spotted with white; meta tibial macrosetae on posterodorsal row 6–11; male pygofer armed with stout spine-like process arising on ventral margin, directed caudad or dorsad; dorsal connectives slender and unarmed, or unsclerotized; pregenital tergite with quadrate notch at middle of hind margin in male (
Hamilton 1980
).