Two new species of the genus Kapsa Dworakowska from the karst area of Southwest China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae)
Author
Yang, Xiao
0000-0001-6829-8542
School of Karst Science, Guizhou Normal University / State Engineering Technology Institute for Karst Desertification Control, Guiyang, Guizhou 550001, China & 425568235 @ qq. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6829 - 8542
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Author
Luo, Guimei
0000-0002-4732-4358
School of Karst Science, Guizhou Normal University / State Engineering Technology Institute for Karst Desertification Control, Guiyang, Guizhou 550001, China & 762786067 @ qq. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4732 - 4358
762786067@qq.com
Author
Song, Yue-Hua
School of Karst Science, Guizhou Normal University / State Engineering Technology Institute for Karst Desertification Control, Guiyang, Guizhou 550001, China
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-08-09
5174
2
195
200
journal article
119272
10.11646/zootaxa.5174.2.6
b8297725-1fdb-4963-bf8f-ec33876713c1
1175-5326
6986183
A07F67A3-AF56-482B-AF3C-6BA4ABD64A9F
Kapsa
Dworakowska
Type
species.
Typhlocyba furcifrons
Jacobi, 1941
Description.
Colour yellow or white with or without yellow-whitish markings. Head narrower than pronotum. Crown fore margin weakly produced, broadly rounded apically. Vertex unicolorous or with pair of pre-apical spots or with median apical spot. Eyes grey or black. Face usually unicolorous. Pronotum pale or with dark posterior margin. Mesonotum entirely pale or pale with dark lateral triangles. Forewings yellowish or brownish, usually without spots or other markings.
Pygofer lobe rounded, not extended to apex of subgenital plate. Pygofer ventro-apical membranous area well developed. Subgenital plate with 2-6 long macrosetae. Style with preapical lobe prominent, truncated or expanded with extension. Aedeagus usually with processes. Connective median anterior lobe broad; stem absent or very short or very long.
Notes. This genus currently includes two subgenera. The nominotypical subgenus,
Kapsa
(
Kapsa
)
differs from
Kapsa
(
Rigida
)
in lacking a slender sclerotized process at the apex of the median anterior lobe of the connective and in usually having the aedeagal shaft tubular.