Brasura Nielson, 1982

Wang, Xiu-Dan, Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2018, Four new species of tribe Coelidiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae) from the Afrotropical Region, Zootaxa 4415 (3), pp. 591-600 : 592

Genus Brasura Nielson

Brasura Nielson, 1982: 27 ; Nielson, 1991: 412. Type-species, Brasura variabilis Nielson, 1982 , original designation.

Size medium, 6.3 to 10.05 mm long. Color fuscous to piceous, forewings with ochraceous spots in membrane and veins with alternating dark and pale markings, sometimes with transverse, light brown subapical band or claval spot.

Head wider than long, narrower than pronotum, anterior margin rounded. Crown flattened, slightly produced beyond anterior margin of eyes, area between eyes equal to or slightly narrower than eyes, lateral margins convergent basally. Ocelli prominent, situated near anterior margin of crown. Pronotum longer than crown but shorter than mesonotum. Forewings elongate, with 3 anteapical cells, outer one closed, and 5 apical cells, appendiX well developed. Face with frontoclypeus flattened, without median longitudinal carina, lateral margin conveX; clypellus long, basal part slightly swollen, lateral margins constricted medially.

Male genitalia. Pygofer with or without small caudoventral and caudodorsal processes. Aedeagus asymmetrical, slender, evaginated or eXtended subbasally, medially or subapically, with one tuft of spines subbasally to medially, and the other one subapically or absent. Gonopore subbasal to median, usually near evagination. Connective broadly Y-shaped, stem shot. Style short, glabrous, never longer than half length of aedeagus. Subgenital plate narrow, with spines apically.

Remarks. This genus is similar to Krosolus Nielson, 1982 and Srabura Nielson, 1991, but differs from them by the evaginated aedeagus with one group of spines at basal half of shaft, and with or without spines at apical half.