Oncopsis Burmeister, 1838

Li, Hu, Li, Juan & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2019, Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Oncopsis (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Macropsinae) from Sichuan Province, China with description of two new species and a key to males, ZooKeys 854, pp. 25-39 : 27

Genus Oncopsis Burmeister, 1838

Bythoscopus (Oncopsis) Burmeister, 1838: 10.

Zinneca Amyot & Servile, 1843: 579; Hamilton 1980: 887 (synonymy).

Type species.

Cicada flavicollis Linnaeus, 1761 [by subsequent designation, Westwood 1840].

Distribution.

Palaearctic, Oriental, and Nearctic realms.

Host.

Betulaceae and Ulmus spp. ( Ulmaceae ).

Remarks.

Oncopsis can be distinguished from other genera of Macropsinae largely by the following combined features: face with coronal pits closer together than ocelli; frons usually with transverse striations or punctures; pronotum with transverse striations; forewing with three (rarely two or reticulate) anteapical and four apical cells; male pygofer without process at ventral margin; dorsal connective generally large, s-shaped in lateral aspect, and bearing large, forked or unforked process from inner ventral margin; dorsal connective usually articulating against upper margin of pygofer.