An account of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from the Southern Odisha, India Author Kushwaha, Sandeep Zoological Survey of India, Central Zone Regional Centre, Jabalpur - 482002, Madhya Pradesh, India; Email: sandeepkushwaha _ 17 @ yahoo. com Author Khare, Preety Government Science College, Jabalpur 482002, Madhya Pradesh, India Author Jahan, Sonam Government Science College, Jabalpur 482002, Madhya Pradesh, India Author Kumar, Hirdesh Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India Author Dam, Debashree Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India Author Suman, Kusumala Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (Central University), Lucknow- 226025, Uttar Pradesh, India text Records of the Zoological Survey of India 2023 123 1 51 62 journal article 10.26515/rzsi/v123/i1/2023/172403 2581-8686 10956380 10. Nephotettix virescens (Distant, 1908) Cicada bipunctata : Fabricius, (1803: 78) Selenocephalus virescens Distant, 1908: 291 Phrynomorphusoli vacescens : Distant, (1918: 52) Nephotettix impicticeps : Ishihara (1964: 42) Nephotettix virescens : Ghauri (1971: 484) Material examined: INDIA • 1♂ ( 5–6mm ), Odisha , Ganjam , Tantapani , 19°30’11” N , 84°24’24” E , 24.V.2019 , S. Kushwaha and Party leg.; Regn. No. : H15-10193 ; INDIA • 1♂ and 1♀ , ( 5–6mm ); Odisha , Gajapati , Aduba , near Harabhangi , 19°28’41” N , 84°9’16” E , 25.V.2019 , S. Kushwaha and Party leg.; Regn. No. : H15-9991, H15 - 9992. Diagnostic characters: Vertex shiny white in the apex, as broad as pronotum, pronotum greenish. Faint basal triangles at the scutellum may be seen. Tegmina with a black spot in the middle, absent in females. Distribution: India : Andhra Pradesh , Assam , Bihar , Chhattisgarh , Jammu and Kashmir , Madhya Pradesh , Meghalaya , Mizoram ,Punjab, Rajasthan , and West Bengal . Elsewhere: Australia , Bangladesh , China , Ethiopian region, Indonesia , Japan , Korea , Laos , Malaysia , Pakistan , Palestine , Philippines , Singapore , Sri Lanka , Vietnam , Taiwan , and Thailand .