Kolla Distant, 1908

Naveed, Hassan & Zhang, Yalin, 2018, Newly recorded leafhoppers of the subfamily Cicadellinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with description of a new species from Pakistan, Zootaxa 4504 (2), pp. 285-295 : 288

Genus Kolla Distant, 1908

Kolla Distant, 1908: 223 . Type species: Kolla insignis Distant , originally designated.

Kolella Evans, 1966: 148 . Synonymized by Feng & Zhang, 2017. Type species: Kolla pupula Kirby , originally designated.

Species within the genus Kolla can be distinguished from other Cicadellinae by the following combination of characters: relatively small in size with symmetrical black markings on dorsum; head slightly produced; clypeus usually flattened; forewing usually with area on costal margin transparent; male pygofer with basiventral process extending posterad, with inflation at base; connective ‘Y’- or ‘T’-shaped with arms well separated and long manubrium; paraphysis absent; aedeagus with basal sclerite usually obvious; aedeagal shaft usually with pair of lamelliform lobes.