Varicopsella elegans Viraktamath, 1981

Viraktamath, C. A., Yeshwanth, H. M. & Ajaykumara, K. M., 2024, New species of the leafhopper tribes Agalliini and Macropsini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from north and northeast India with checklist of species of the tribes from the Indian subcontinent, Zootaxa 5486 (2), pp. 267-282 : 272

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.5

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13209907

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scientific name

Varicopsella elegans Viraktamath
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Varicopsella elegans Viraktamath View in CoL

Figs 3A–J View FIGURES 3

Diagnosis. Slender, small, slightly depressed macropsine leafhopper resembling both V. breakeyi (Merino) and V. obtusa Hamilton , but differs from them in having either bidentate or tridentate pygofer process and a subapical ventral tooth on the dorsal sclerite of the dorsal connective ( Viraktamath 1981).

Material examined. INDIA: Uttarakhand: 7♂, Dehradun , 30016 ’58” N, 77058 ’21” E, 2.viii.2017, Hg Light, Stuti ( IARI, UASB) .

Remarks. The specimens collected show color variation. The forewing is spotted with fuscous spots in some specimens ( Figs 3 View FIGURES 3 AB) and not so spotted in others ( Fig. 3C View FIGURES 3 ). The pygofer also has either two or three tooth-like processes as reported in the original description ( Viraktamath 1981).

IARI

Indian Agricultural Research Institute

UASB

University of Agricultural Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Varicopsella

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