Canopyana, Viraktamath & Srinivasa, 2006

Viraktamath, C. A. & Srinivasa, Y. B., 2006, Canopyana vateriae gen. nov. and sp. nov. - A leafhopper breeding on Vateria indica and a new record of Bhatia distanti (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae) from south India, Zootaxa 1307 (1), pp. 35-39 : 36

Canopyana gen. nov.

Type species: Canopyana vateriae sp. nov.

Small (4.4–5.5 mm long), yellowish brown leafhoppers with brown spots on head and thorax.

Head including eyes wider than pronotum, anterior margin faintly rimmed and transversely striated. Ocelli on margin slightly more than own diameter from corresponding eye. Disc of vertex obliquely striated, with anterior margin slightly longer medially than next to eyes, sulcate subapically. Face including eyes broader than long, lateral frontal sutures reaching ocelli, transclypeal suture present. Clypellus broader apically than at base. Antennae situated somewhat at level with upper margin of eye in facial view, longer than half body length; antennal pit encroaching onto clypeus. Pronotum transversely striated, side margins short, carinate. Fore tibia with dorsal surface rounded, setal formula 2+4. Hind femur with apical setal formula 2+2+1. Hind tibial setal formula R 1 21±2, R 2 10±1, R 3 18±2. Hind basitarsomere with three platellae on the apical transverse row. Forewing with claval veins connected by a cross vein and also with a cross vein between outer claval vein and claval suture, inner anteapical cell open basally.

Male pygophore longer than high, with dorsal process arising from caudo­dorsal angle. Valve transverse, straplike. Subgenital plate triangular without macrosetae, with a mesal marginal sclerotization in basal region. Style short and broad. Connective Y­shaped, straight, with stem more than twice as long as arm. Aedeagus with a basal ventral process, shaft tubular with apical gonopore, dorsal apodeme short and sclerotized.

Female seventh sternum medially produced. Second pair of gonapophysis with cutting edge confined to distal 0.25 area, each teeth with serrated margin.

Remarks: Canopyana externally resembles some species of Carvaka Distant but differs in having a cross vein both between claval veins and outer claval vein and claval suture (in Carvaka only the outer claval vein is connected to claval suture by a cross vein). In Zhang & Webb (1996), Canopyana keys to Kutara Distant with difficulty but differs from Kutara as follows: