Thapaia Dmitriev & Dietrich, 2006

Song, Yuehua & Li, Zizhong, 2009, Three new species of the leafhopper genus Thapaia Dmitriev & Dietrich (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, Zootaxa 2299, pp. 62-68 : 62-63

Thapaia Dmitriev & Dietrich, 2006

Masaakia Thapa, 1989:120

Thapaia Dmitriev & Dietrich, 2006: 37 Type species: Masaakia nema Thapa, 1989

Body yellow or white. Head produced medially, slightly narrower or as wide or wider than pronotum. Vertex usually with pair of dark preapical spots. Eyes elongate, black. Face with pair of black marks anterodorsad of antennal pits. Anteclypeus inflated, broad, dark brown or black. Pronotum broad, often with obvious dark patterns. Scutellum yellow or orange, basal triangles and apex black; transverse impression distinct, with two small rounded spots anterad of it. Forewing semitransparent, with large dark patterns; brochosome spot bright ochre-yellow; 1st apical cell with oblique base, 2nd apical cell petiolate (R2 confluent with R+M for short distance), 4th apical cell very small.

Abdominal apodemes broad, not or slightly exceeding 3rd sternite.

Male genitalia: Pygofer without dorsal or ventral appendages. Pygofer lobe hind margin acutely produced, often with small slightly sclerotized process and small group of microsetae around it. Few long rigid setae scattered on surface of pygofer lobe. Anal tube often with pair of basal processes. Subgenital plate expanded at base, with 4 macrosetae on lateral surface, apex bending towards internal margin, dentiform.

Style apex slender, preapical lobe small but prominent. Aedeagal shaft tubular, pair of terminal processes arising from apex and single or pair of small ventral processes arising from base or sub-base. Connective Yshaped; central lobe distinct or vestigial, arms long, stem short or absent.

Distribution: Nepal (Kathmandu); Sikkim (Rumtek, Gangtok, Pelling, Geizing); China (Henan, Guizhou).