Taxonomy of the leafhopper genus Varicopsella (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae: Macropsini) with description of a new species from Thailand Author Wang, Dongming 0000-0002-9461-3515 Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China Author Zhang, Yalin Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China text Zootaxa 2024 2024-09-06 5506 2 295 300 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5506.2.10 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5506.2.10 1175-5326 BBAB49FD-CC62-4893-9598-33538D757542 Varicopsella Hamilton Varicopsella Hamilton, 1980: 900 . Type species: Macropsis breakeyi Merino, 1936 Diagnosis. Body obviously depressed. Crown prominent, V-shaped in dorsal view. Face with lora fused to frontoclypeus, lacking clear sutures between them. Ocelli on face, closer to adjacent eyes than to each other. Pronotum slightly declivous, striations on surface dense and oblique. Scutellum triangular. Forewings with 3 anteapical cells, veins protruding. Male pygofer broad, with some short spinelike distal processes on inner surface of lobe. Subgenital plate slender, with scattered setae. Dorsal connective divided into two articulated portions. Connective small, posterior margin nearly truncate. Style slender, with sparse row of fine setae dorsolaterally. Aedeagus shaft tubular. Distribution. Australia , Borneo, China , India , Philippines and Thailand .