Eusarima Yang, 1994

Gnezdilov, Vladimir M., 2009, Revisionary notes on some tropical Issidae and Nogodinidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (1), pp. 75-92 : 84

Genus Eusarima Yang, 1994

Eusarima Yang, 1994 in CHAN & YANG (1994): 108. Type species: Eusarima contorta Yang, 1994 in CHAN & YANG (1994), by original designation.

Nepalius Dlabola, 1997: 309 , syn. nov. Type species: Nepalius hellerianus Dlabola, 1997 , by original designation.

Supplementary description. Metope with complete median and sublateral keels joining below or at its upper margin. Fore wing sometimes with hypocostal plate, radius and cubitus anterior bifurcate, median tri- or tetrafurcate (vein formula R 2 M 3–4 CuA 2). Hind wing with two clefts; radius and first anal vein bifurcate, median, cubitus posterior, postcubitus, and second anal vein simple, cubitus anterior bi- or trifurcate; vein formula R 2, M 1, CuA 2–3, CuP 1, Pcu 1, A 1 2 and A 2 1. Each dorso-lateral lobe of phallobase with elongate apical process. Style with small capitulum.

Comments. The examination of the type species of the genus Nepalius , N. hellerianus , known from Nepal ( DLABOLA 1997), showed that this species shares with Eusarima a similar pattern of keels on the metope, venation of fore and hind wings and structure of male genitalia. I therefore consider Nepalius as a junior synonym of Eusarima . The genus Eusarima with 29 described species has been known so far only from Taiwan ( CHAN & YANG 1994). Eusarima helleriana , comb. nov., differs from the Taiwanese species by the intermediate keels of metope joining at its upper margin and the presence of a hypocostal plate on the fore wings.