Kapateira Young

Godoy, Carolina, Garita-Cambronero, Jerson & Villalobos, Carmen Rivera William, 2006, Two new species of Kapateira Young from Costa Rica (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae), Zootaxa 1282, pp. 29-38 : 31

Genus Kapateira Young

Type Species. Oncometopia rosipennis Osborn (1926b:172) .

Diagnosis. Male 6.7–10.6 mm, female 6.5–7.4 mm. Color dull yellowish. Anterior portion of the pronotum and the scutellum dull yellow, with the disk of the pronotum and the forewing tan to purplish. Some species with black pronotal spots. Head moderately produced, crown with or without a concavity across ocelli, surface without sculpturing or setae. Thorax with pronotal width less than transocular width of head, lateral margins parallel or slightly convergent anteriorly, dorsopleural carinae complete, posterior margin concave; scutellum not transversely rugose. Forewing with membrane including all or almost all apical cells, extending proximally along costal margin or not, with three closed anteapical cells, middle anteapical cell the longest, texture coriaceous with or without weak transverse rugae. Hind femoral setal formula 2:1:1, first tarsomere slightly longer than combined length of distal tarsomeres and with two parallel asymmetrical rows of small setae on plantar surface. Male genitalia: Pygofer moderately produced, posterior margin varying from regularly convex to slightly produced posterodorsally and slightly angular, with numerous macrosetae on posterior half of disk, occasionally with interspersed microsetae, pygofer processes absent. Subgenital plate narrowly triangular, variable in their posterior extent compared with apex of pygofer, with uniseriate macrosetae. Style extending posteriorly beyond apex of connective,without preapical lobe. Connective occurring as a transverse bar, or short and Y­shaped. Aedeagus symmetrical, usually with paired processes occurring basally or at apex of shaft, with or without additional processes. Paraphyses usually absent.