Myittana (Benglebra) Mahmood & Ahmad, 1969

Zhao, Yong-Tao, Luo, Qiang, Yang, Lin, Long, Jian-Kun, Chang, Zhi-Min & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2023, Two new species of the bamboo-feeding subgenus Myittana (Benglebra) (Hemiptera Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, Zootaxa 5244 (1), pp. 82-88 : 83

Subgenus Myittana (Benglebra) Mahmood & Ahmad

Benglebra Mahmood & Ahmad, 1969: 86 .

Benglebra Khatri & Webb, 2011: 14 .

Myittana (Benglebra) Viraktamath & Webb, 2019: 22 .

Type species: Benglebra alami Mahmood & Ahmed, 1969 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. External characters as in generic description of Viraktamath & Webb (2019) and Luo et al. (2019).

Remarks. The subgenus can be identified by the following characteristics: crown and pronotum often with red or orange longitudinal stripes; crown extended forward; pronotum width close to width of head including compound eye; R 4+5 and M 1+2 veins confluent near apex of forewings; ventral margin of pygofer near the middle often with a pair of well-developed processes reaching towards the apex or pointing towards each other; apex of style bifid or finger-like; connective V-shaped; aedeagus gradually tapered from base to tip, usually laterally compressed, without projection at tip, gonopore apical on caudal surface.

Distributions. Bangladesh; China; India.