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C783C4F835DF5D958AF9E2F750600289.text	C783C4F835DF5D958AF9E2F750600289.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Elaphiceps brachyspinus Yuan & Chou 1988	<div><p>Elaphiceps brachyspinus Yuan &amp; Chou, 1988</p><p>Figs 5, 6, 7</p><p>Elaphiceps brachyspinus Yuan &amp; Chou, 1988: 75 — Yuan 1993: 366; Yuan and Chou 2002: 115–116.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>• 1 ♂ (GUGC), China, Hainan Province, Leduo Li Autonomous County, Jianfengling National Nature Reserve, 25-IV-2017, Liang-Jing Yang leg (no. EB 001) ; • 1 ♀ (GUGC), China, Zhejiang Province, Quzhou City, Qujiang District, Medicine King Mountain, 28-V-2020, light trapping Xiao-Han Ye leg (no. EB 002) .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Body length: male 11.5 mm (n = 1), female 11.9 mm (n = 1); forewing length: male 9.0 mm (n = 1), female 9.4 mm (n = 1); width between humeral angles apices: male 3.6 mm (n = 1), female 3.7 mm (n = 1); the length of anterior rebranch: male 0.5 mm (n = 1), female 0.7 mm (n = 1).</p><p>Colouration. General colour black, with yellow setae (Fig. 5 A – C). Eyes dark yellow-brown. Forewing black, with brown areas. Abdomen black, with yellow pubescence; apex with yellowish brown stripes. Legs black except femur reddish brown.</p><p>Head and thorax. Vertex with dorsal margins bow-shaped; ventral margins undulate (Fig. 5 A). Frontoclypeal margins apically arcuate (Fig. 5 A). Mesodorsal process tall and slender (Fig. 5 B). In dorsal view, lateral and anterior rebranches bow-shaped. Lateral branch with distinct carina and weak ridge; carinae overall parallel (Fig. 5 C). Anterior rebranch triangular and short (Fig. 5 C). Posterior pronotal process curved, extending nearly to apex of first apical cell; apex contacting forewing margins (Fig. 5 B).</p><p>Male genitalia. Subgenital plates basally fused for more than half their length (Fig. 6 D). Aedeagus slightly medially swollen and narrow at both ends in lateral view (Fig. 6 E, F).</p><p>Female genitalia. Valvulae II knife-shaped, apex submedially slightly widened; dorsal margin basally obliquely straight (Fig. 7 E).</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>China (Fujian, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Hainan, Zhejiang).</p><p>Note.</p><p>Notably, the male is described here for the first time, and the species is newly recorded from Hainan and Zhejiang Provinces, which constitute new distribution records.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C783C4F835DF5D958AF9E2F750600289	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Li, Feng-E;Long, Jian-Kun;Chang, Zhi-Min;Yang, Lin;Chen, Xiang-Sheng	Li, Feng-E, Long, Jian-Kun, Chang, Zhi-Min, Yang, Lin, Chen, Xiang-Sheng (2026): Review of treehopper genus Elaphiceps Buckton, 1903 (Hemiptera, Membracidae, Centrotinae), with the first description of the male of E. brachyspinus Yuan & Chou, 1988. ZooKeys 1284: 113-128, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1284.181440
AD9BE895C5555E9FB1BC04A0FA15B1F0.text	AD9BE895C5555E9FB1BC04A0FA15B1F0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Elaphiceps Buckton 1903	<div><p>Elaphiceps Buckton, 1903</p><p>Elaphiceps Buckton, 1903: 217 — Yuan and Chou 1988: 72; Metcalf and Wade 1965: 106; Yuan and Chou 2002: 112; Wallace and Deitz 2004: 35.</p><p>Type species.</p><p>Elaphiceps cervus Buckton, 1903 .</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Medium-sized to large. Colouration black to brown. Body hairy. Head subquadrate; vertex with dorsal margins distinctly arcuate and ventral margins wavy or slightly oblique. Ocelli ovoid to globular, closer to inner margins of eyes than to each other. Frontoclypeal margins and lobes generally rhombic to ligulate; frontoclypeal lobes distinct. Pronotum black or reddish brown, coarsely punctate, sparsely pubescent. Humeral angles triangular, robust, with blunt or acute apices. Metopidium convex in lateral view; middle carina distinct. Mesodorsal process with base inversely funnel-shaped (Fig. 2 A), apical portion columnar. In dorsal view, apex of mesodorsal process laterally extending to form lateral branches, giving entire structure a slightly curved outline (Fig. 2 C). Lateral branches bear a pair of elongate, conical or triangular, anterior rebranches near their midlength (Figs 2 C, 8 C). Posterior pronotal process long, slender, triquerate, arising from summit of pronotum and extending beyond internal angles of forewing; profile slightly convex (Figs 2 B, 5 B, 9 B) to concave (Fig. 8 B). Scutellum entirely exposed, slender, with basal protuberance present; length longer than wide. Base with a semicircular patch of white to yellow pubescence; posterior margin emarginated with shallow arc, accounting for an extremely small proportion (Fig. 11 B). Forewing nearly rectangular, dark brown to reddish brown, with pubescent; veins and wings same color. Basal quarter near Sc and R vein with opaque sclerotization; veins M + Cu and R fused basally, R and M fused with R 1, R 2 + 3 and M 1 + 2 and M 3 + 4, respectively; forewing with three crossveins present (one m-cu, one r-m, and one s), forming five apical cells and two discoidal cells (Fig. 2 D). Hindwing with R vein branched into R 1, R 2 + 3, and R 4 + 5, with vein M branched into M 1 + 2 and M 3 + 4, R 4 + 5, and with M 1 + 2 veins not fused, one r-m and one m-cu crossveins present (four apical cells present); apical limbus broad, with wrinkles (Fig. 2 E). Metathoracic trochanter without spines; tibia with three rows of cucullate setae.</p><p>Male genitalia. Pygofer nearly trapezoidal in lateral view, with dorsal margin convex basally, and apex slightly elongated, tubular (Figs 3 A, 6 A). Sternite IX rectangular, its ventral margin concave medially (Figs 3 D, 6 D). Lateral plate with a dorsoapical lobe dorsally extending; remainder triangular, setose (Figs 3 G, 6 G). Subgenital plates fused in basal half or slightly beyond (Figs 3 D, 6 D), slightly curled inward in the lateral view (Figs 3 A, 6 A). Style clasp laterally oriented (Figs 3 A, 6 A), triangular (Figs 3 C, 6 C); connective n-shaped, slightly expanded laterally. Aedeagus in lateral view nearly C-shaped; distal half with surface and margin bearing reverse serrations (Figs 3 E, 6 E); basal section tubular, formed by convergence toward centre of lamellar structures, with a wavy slit in middle (Figs 3 E, 3 F, 6 E, 6 F). In posterior view, gonopore apical, elongate-oval, occupying nearly one-quarter of total aedeagus length (Figs 3 E, 3 F, 6 E, 6 F).</p><p>Female genitalia. Pygofer irregularly shoe-shaped in lateral view (base acuminate, apex tubular; Figs 4 A, 7 A, 10 A) and elongate-oval in ventral view (Figs 4 B, 7 B, 10 B). Sternite VII in ventral view with posterior margin deeply concave, bearing a triangular membranous area on each side (Figs 4 C, 7 C, 10 C). Valvifer I semicircular, thin (Figs 4 D, 7 D, 10 D); valvulae I knife-shaped, with sculptured lines on half or near half of dorsal margin surface and apical ventral margin (Figs 4 D, 7 D, 10 D). Valvifer II shoe-shaped in lateral view (Figs 4 F, 7 F, 10 F). Valvulae II knife-shaped, with apical third to half slightly widened; dorsal margin slightly convex or obliquely straight basally, serrated along basal half of widened portion and smooth distally (Figs 4 E, 7 E, 10 E). Gonoplac with apical half expanded; ventral margin with setae (Figs 4 F, 7 F, 10 F).</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>China, Indonesia.</p><p>Checklist and distributions of species of Elaphiceps Buckton, 1903</p><p>E. brachyspinus Yuan &amp; Chou, 1988; China (Fujian, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Hainan, Zhejiang).</p><p>E. cervus Buckton, 1903; China (Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Guizhou).</p><p>E. javanensis Funkhouser, 1937; Indonesia (Java).</p><p>E. neocervus Yuan &amp; Chou, 1988; China (Hainan, Yunnan, Fujian, Sichuan, Guizhou).</p><p>Key to species of Elaphiceps Buckton, 1903</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AD9BE895C5555E9FB1BC04A0FA15B1F0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Li, Feng-E;Long, Jian-Kun;Chang, Zhi-Min;Yang, Lin;Chen, Xiang-Sheng	Li, Feng-E, Long, Jian-Kun, Chang, Zhi-Min, Yang, Lin, Chen, Xiang-Sheng (2026): Review of treehopper genus Elaphiceps Buckton, 1903 (Hemiptera, Membracidae, Centrotinae), with the first description of the male of E. brachyspinus Yuan & Chou, 1988. ZooKeys 1284: 113-128, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1284.181440
337310D1FA5653C79DBD50C7DE7F5365.text	337310D1FA5653C79DBD50C7DE7F5365.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Elaphiceps cervus Buckton 1903	<div><p>Elaphiceps cervus Buckton, 1903</p><p>Figs 2, 3, 4</p><p>Elaphiceps cervus Buckton, 1903: 217 — Funkhouser 1929: 478; Yuan 1986: 154; Yuan and Chou 1988: 75; Yuan and Chou 2002: 113–114; Wallace and Deitz 2004: 35.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>• 1 ♀ (GUGC), China, Guizhou Province, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Longli Country, Longjia Mountain Forest Park, 22-VII-2017, Xiang-Sheng Chen leg (no. EC 001) ; • 1 ♂ (GUGC), China, Hainan Province, Baisha Li Autonomous County, Yinggeling National Nature Reserve, 6-IV-2017, Ying-Jian Wang leg (no. EC 002) ; • 1 ♂ (GUGC), China, Hainan Province, Lingshui Li Autonomous County, Diaoluoshan National Nature Reserve, 15-IV-2017, Hong-Xing Li leg (no. EC 003) ; • 1 ♀ (GUGC), China, Hainan Province, Changjiang Li Autonomous County, Bawangling National Nature Reserve, 2-V-2017, Hong-Xing Li leg (no. EC 004) ; • 1 ♀ (GUGC), China, Hainan Province, Wuzhishan City, Wuzhishan National Nature Reserve, 17-IV-2017, Bin Yan leg (no. EC 005) .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Body length: male 9.2–9.5 mm (n = 2), female 9.7–10.1 mm (n = 3); forewing length: male 8.0– 8.1 mm (n = 2), female 8.0– 8.5 mm (n = 3); width between humeral angles apices: male 3.2–3.4 mm (n = 2), female 3.4–3.5 mm (n = 3); the length of anterior rebranch: male 2.0– 2.3 mm (n = 2), female 2.0– 2.1 mm (n = 3).</p><p>Colouration. General colour black, covered with yellow setae (Fig. 2 A – C). Eyes black-brown, with a paler brown marginal ring. Forewing black-brown. Abdomen black; sternites with white and yellow pubescence. Legs black.</p><p>Head and thorax. Frontoclypeal margins and lobes with an overall rhombus-shape; apical margin arcuate (Fig. 2 A). Mesodorsal process tall and slender (Fig. 2 A, B). In dorsal view, lateral branch convex near its midlength and curve; length approximately three times that of anterior rebranch. Dorsal surface with a distinct median carina and two weak ridges (Fig. 2 C). In lateral view, anterior rebranch extends well beyond metopidium (Fig. 2 C). Posterior pronotal process long, slender, and slightly inclined posteriorly, extending beyond apex of first apical cell, with apex nearly touching forewing margins (Fig. 2 B).</p><p>Male genitalia. Subgenital plates fused in basal half. Aedeagus with distal half bearing reverse serrations on its surface and margin. (Fig. 3 E, F).</p><p>Female genitalia. The valvulae II knife-shaped, with apical third slightly widened and dorsal margin obliquely straight basally (Fig. 4 E).</p><p>Host.</p><p>Castanta mollissinma; Castanopsis diversifolia ( Fagaceae).</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>China (Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Taiwan, Yunnan).</p><p>Note.</p><p>A new distribution record is reported here from Guizhou Province.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/337310D1FA5653C79DBD50C7DE7F5365	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Li, Feng-E;Long, Jian-Kun;Chang, Zhi-Min;Yang, Lin;Chen, Xiang-Sheng	Li, Feng-E, Long, Jian-Kun, Chang, Zhi-Min, Yang, Lin, Chen, Xiang-Sheng (2026): Review of treehopper genus Elaphiceps Buckton, 1903 (Hemiptera, Membracidae, Centrotinae), with the first description of the male of E. brachyspinus Yuan & Chou, 1988. ZooKeys 1284: 113-128, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1284.181440
0D4322A68C4152AFB0A78A2B6AEEE892.text	0D4322A68C4152AFB0A78A2B6AEEE892.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Elaphiceps javanensis Funkhouser 1937	<div><p>Elaphiceps javanensis Funkhouser, 1937</p><p>Fig. 8</p><p>Elaphiceps javanensis Funkhouser, 1937: 121–122 .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Colouration. General colour reddish brown, with gold hairs (Fig. 8 A – C). Eyes pale yellow-brown; ocelli orange-yellow. Thorax brown, with yellow pubescence. Legs pale brown; tarsi and claws dark brown.</p><p>Head and thorax. Head with longitudinal median carina; vertex with dorsal margins distinctly bow-shaped; ventral margins undulate (Fig. 8 A). Frontoclypeal margins apically triangular (Fig. 8 A). Metopidium strongly convex in lateral view (Fig. 8 B). Mesodorsal process short and stocky (Fig. 8 A). In dorsal view, lateral branch extends laterally and dorsally, then runs slightly downward. Anterior rebranch triangular, with curved apex (Fig. 8 C). Posterior pronotal process arced and inwardly concave; apex extending beyond midpoint of first apical cell and contacting forewing margins along approximately one-third of its length (Fig. 8 B).</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Indonesia (Java).</p><p>Note.</p><p>The present interpretation of the species is based on photographs of the holotype provided by the Department of Entomology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (USNM).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0D4322A68C4152AFB0A78A2B6AEEE892	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Li, Feng-E;Long, Jian-Kun;Chang, Zhi-Min;Yang, Lin;Chen, Xiang-Sheng	Li, Feng-E, Long, Jian-Kun, Chang, Zhi-Min, Yang, Lin, Chen, Xiang-Sheng (2026): Review of treehopper genus Elaphiceps Buckton, 1903 (Hemiptera, Membracidae, Centrotinae), with the first description of the male of E. brachyspinus Yuan & Chou, 1988. ZooKeys 1284: 113-128, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1284.181440
88F98E37BFC453C486F61C9ED02D7E6A.text	88F98E37BFC453C486F61C9ED02D7E6A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Elaphiceps neocervus Yuan & Chou 1988	<div><p>Elaphiceps neocervus Yuan &amp; Chou, 1988</p><p>Figs 9, 10</p><p>Elaphiceps necervus Yuan &amp; Chou, 1988: 75 — Yuan 1993: 366; Yuan and Chou 2002: 114–115.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>• 1 ♀ (GUGC), China, Guizhou Province, Anshun City, Ziyun Miao and Bouyei Autonomous County, Nazuo Village, 8-VI-2019, Yong-Qing Fang leg (no. EN 001) ; • 1 ♀ (GUGC), China, Guizhou Province, Anshun City, Ziyun Miao and Bouyei Autonomous County, Luga Village, 3-VII-2019, Yong-Qing Fang leg (no. EN 002) ; • 1 ♀ (GUGC), China, Yunnan Province, Puer City, Simao District, Puer Sun River National Park, 27-VI-2019, Feng-E Li leg (no. EN 003) ; • 1 ♀ (GUGC), China, Hainan Province, Leduo Li Autonomous County, Jianfeng Town, Hainan Jianfengling National Nature Reserve, 12-V-2021, Lan Zhang leg (no. EN 004) .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Body length: female 11.5–12.1 mm (n = 4); forewing length: female 10.5–10.6 mm (n = 4); width between humeral angles apices: female 4.0– 4.1 mm (n = 4); length of anterior rebranch: female 1.5–1.7 mm (n = 4).</p><p>Colouration. General colour black, with yellow setae (Fig. 9 A – C). Eyes yellow-brown, with black maculae; ocelli dark orange. Forewing black, infused with reddish brown. Abdomen, with white and yellow pubescence. Legs black.</p><p>Head and thorax. Vertex with dorsal margins bow-shaped; ventral margins undulate. Frontoclypeal margins apically rather blunt (Fig. 9 A). Mesodorsal process tall and slender (Fig. 9 B). In dorsal view, lateral and anterior rebranches bow-shaped. Lateral branch with a distinct carina and a weak ridge. Anterior rebranch elongate, horn-like, about one-fifth of length of lateral branch (Fig. 9 C). Posterior pronotal process slightly curved to almost straight, its apex slightly distant from forewing margins (Fig. 9 B).</p><p>Female genitalia. Valvulae II knife-shaped, with apical half slightly widened; dorsal margin slightly convex at basal quarter (Fig. 10 E).</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>China (Fujian, Guizhou, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan).</p><p>Note.</p><p>New distribution records are reported from Hainan and Guizhou Provinces.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88F98E37BFC453C486F61C9ED02D7E6A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Li, Feng-E;Long, Jian-Kun;Chang, Zhi-Min;Yang, Lin;Chen, Xiang-Sheng	Li, Feng-E, Long, Jian-Kun, Chang, Zhi-Min, Yang, Lin, Chen, Xiang-Sheng (2026): Review of treehopper genus Elaphiceps Buckton, 1903 (Hemiptera, Membracidae, Centrotinae), with the first description of the male of E. brachyspinus Yuan & Chou, 1988. ZooKeys 1284: 113-128, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1284.181440
