Euscelis picturatus, Metcalf, Z. P., 1946

Metcalf, Z. P., 1946, Homoptera, Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 105-148 : 123-126

3. Euscelis picturatus , new species (fig. 12, a, b).

Crown short and broad, nearly three times as broad as its median length, only about one third as long as the pronotum; anterior and posterior borders nearly parallel; surface smooth and shiny. Face smooth and shiny; the postclypeus about as long as the width between the ocelli; the ocelli close to the eyes but not touching; the lateral margins of the postclypeus diverging to the level of the antennae and then converging to the narrow anteclypeus; anteclypeus narrow at base, somewhat broadened, spatulate toward the apex; cheeks broad; the outer margins somewhat angulate. Antennae inserted at about the level of the eyes. Pronotum about three times as broad as its median length, but little narrower than the compound eyes; anterior margin broadly curved; posterior margin nearly transverse; smooth and shining. Tegmina rather thick and opaque; venation typical with three anteapical and four apical cells.

as broad as its median length; deeply and somewhat triangularly excavated on the posterior border.

General color above greenish testaceous, below, including the face and legs, chiefly testaceous with the eyes and the lateral pieces of the abdomen fuscous; tegmina translucent with a greenish cast; the veins whitish; wings milky subhyaline.

Length: to apex of abdomen, average 2.50 mm.

TODO Holotype male, allotype female, Piti , Nov. 5, Swezey ; paratypes: 18 males, six females, Piti , Nov. 5, Swezey ; two females, Upi Trail , May 5, Swezey . This is a greenish-testaceous species, with the crown about as long as the basal width.