Kyphomachaerota, Bell, Adam J. & Cryan, Jason R., 2013

Bell, Adam J. & Cryan, Jason R., 2013, Two new genera of tube-making spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Machaerotidae: Enderleiniini), Zootaxa 3640 (1), pp. 57-69 : 61-66

Kyphomachaerota gen. n.

Type Species: Kyphomachaerota maaia sp. n.

Generic Description. Head: crown short, hardly visible in dorsal view; width of head ~0.7× width of pronotum; anteclypeus broad, with weak keel; postclypeus smooth, evenly convex; anteclypeus smooth, slightly keeled; pleurostome ~1.8× length of gena and ~1.5× length of lorum; maxillary plate well exposed, visible from anteclypial edge to gena; eye ~4× wider than long in dorsal view, convex along medial edge in frontal view; tylus slightly wider than eye; ocello-ocular distance subequal; supra-antennal triangle weakly developed, barely visible in view of crown. Thorax: strongly humpbacked; pronotum nearly smooth, lacking reticulation, posterolateral margin ~1.7× longer than anterolateral margin, posterior sinuation ~0.2× as deep as length of posterior edge, anterolateral margin weakly distinguished from frontal edge in dorsal view, posterolateral margin curving inwards; scutellum smooth, ~1.5× deep as wide; tegmen hyaline after midpoint, venation weakly pigmented, apical cells more heavily outlined, veins flanked by dark punctures, vein R forked ½ to edge; tibia ~1.6× longer than femur, with 2 tibial spines (apical spine ~3× longer than basal spine); hind tarsus with segment 1 longer than other segments combined.

Distribution. MALAYSIA: Sarawak.

Remarks. While superficially resembling Taihorina , this genus is easily distinguished by the darkly pigmented forewing venation and narrower tylus. The name is derived from the Greek term “ kyphos ” (meaning humpbacked) after the strongly humpbacked pronotum.