Singapora Mahmood, 1967

Lin, Shuanghu & Zhang, Yalin, 2020, Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Singapora (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini) from China with a new species, Zootaxa 4808 (2), pp. 365-372 : 365-366

Singapora Mahmood, 1967

Type species: Singapora nigropunctata Mahmood, 1967 , by original designation

Singapora Mahmood, 1967: 20 ; Chiang & Knight, 1990: 240; Cao et al., 2014: 333 .

Erythroneuropsis Ramakrishnan & Menon, 1973: 37 , synonymized by Dworakowska, 1983: 121

Description. Body medium sized and robust with ground color yellowish to green, sometimes dark. Head slightly narrower than or as wide as pronotum. Vertex blunt, crown fore margin parallel to hind margin, coronal suture distinct, usually with central blackish spot at transition from crown to face. Ocelli well developed. Eyes pale to black. Frontoclypeal area broad and convex, anteclypeus broad and short, lorum small. Fore wing with four apical cells parallel-sided, first apical cell longest and broadest, the other three equal in width, third apical cell shortest, fourth apical cell reaching wing apex; AA vein distinct. Hind wing venation usual for Erythroneurini , without RA vein(Cao, et,al. 2014).

Abdominal apodemes usually broad, short to long.

Pygofer lobe medially sclerotized, denticulate with several macrosetae at its dorso-caudal angle. Several long fine setae scattered near ventral margin and at lower basal angle. Anal tube appendage well developed, pygofer dorsal appendage and ventral appendage absent. Male 9th sternite with two sclerites protruded cephalad. Subgenital plate extended beyond pygofer apex, basal part broadened, outer margin straight, with group of macrosetae on basal outer margin and rows of marginal microsetae from near base to apex, with about 1–5 macrosetae in line in the center near outer margin. Style with apical part extremely elongated, curved laterad; preapical lobe small, with a few microsetae on it. Connective lamellate and triangular, with manubrium long and narrow or short and broad, central lobe well developed. Aedeagal shaft usually tubular, sometimes compressed, curved dorsad; preatrial process well developed, articulated with shaft, as long as or longer than shaft, dorsal apodeme moderately developed, forked in dorsal view; gonopore subapical.

Distribution. China (Beijing, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Zhejiang); India; North Korea; Singapore; Thailand; Uzbekistan.