Eilithyia

Wang, Rong-Rong, Liang, Ai-Ping & Webb, Michael D., 2008, The Oriental planthopper genus Eilithyia Distant (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Tropiduchidae) with description of one new species, Zootaxa 1676, pp. 63-68 : 64

Key to the species of genus Eilithyia

1. Length: 7.5mm (male). Frons and postclypeus with lateral carina indistinct, frons with median carina broad with each adjacent depressed area without gibbosities; fore wings with ratio of length to maximum width 2.8:1 (see Melichar, 1914: 73, Fig. 22; Distant, 1916: 54, fig. 37); male genital capsule with anal tube long and gonostylus with dorsal prominence slightly basad of mid-length ( Fig. 2 ). Narkondam Island ........................................................................................................................................ E. insularis Distant

-. Length: 8.8mm (male). Frons and postclypeus with lateral carina distinct ( Figs 4, 5 ), frons with median carina narrow with each adjacent depressed area having 5 indistinct gibbosities, ( Fig. 4 ); fore wings with ratio of length to maximum breadth 3.38:1 ( Fig. 6 ); male genital capsule with anal tube moderately long and gonostylus with dorsal prominence slightly distad of midlength ( Fig. 8 ). Singapore........................... ............................................................................................................................... E. singaporensis sp. nov.

Figures

FIGURES 2 – 10. 2. E. insularis Distant. anal segment, pygofer and gonostylus, left view. 3 – 10. E. singaporensis sp. nov. 3. head, pronotum and mesonotum, dorsal view; 4. head, ventral view; 5. head, pronotum and mesonotum, lateral view; 6. right fore wing; 7. right hind wing. 8. male genitalia, lateral view; 9. aedeagus, left view; 10. aedeagus, right view.