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
.