Empoascanara (Empoascanara) Distant, 1918

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Empoascanara (Empoascanara) Distant, 1918

Empoascanara Distant, 1918: 94.

Type species.

Empoascanara prima Distant, 1918 , by original designation.

Description.

Dorsum yellow, white, pale red or brown. Crown broadly rounded medially. Vertex unicolorous, with a single dark median apical spot or a pair of spots. Crown nearly equal, slightly wider or narrower than widest part of pronotum. Pronotum pale, with darker posterior margin. Forewings with or without markings.

Male genitalia. Pygofer microtrichia well developed. Pygofer lobe with caudal margin rounded or angulate. Dorsal pygofer appendage movably articulated, with or without ventral pygofer appendage. Subgenital plate expanded subbasally, with 2–4 basal macrosetae and numerous short stout setae along upper margin in lateral view. Style with preapical lobe prominent. Aedeagus with dorsal apodeme not or slightly expanded in lateral view. Aedeagal shaft usually symmetrical, slender in lateral view. Aedeagus with or without apical, subapical, or basal processes, and with or without preatrial ventral process or processes. Connective with median anterior lobe and arms short.

Distribution.

Oriental, Afrotropical, and Australian regions.