Miradeltaphus Dash & Viraktamath

Duan, Yani, Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zhang, Yalin, 2016, Review of the grass-feeding leafhopper genera Miradeltaphus Dash & Viraktamath and Yua namia Zhang & Duan (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini), Zootaxa 4098 (1), pp. 158-166 : 159

Miradeltaphus Dash & Viraktamath

Miradeltaphus Dash & Viraktamath, 1995: 38 . Type species: Miradeltaphus mirabilis Dash & Viraktamath, 1995 .

Diagnosis. This genus may be separated from other Deltocephalini by the following combination of features: crown depressed and angulately produced with pair of orange longitudinal stripes extended across pronotum to scutellum; ocellus nearly touching eye; front tibia with dorsal setal rows 4+4; forewing with 0–2 extra crossveins; male pygofer lobe without process or teeth; subgenital plates fused to valve and to each other through most of length; style elongate with preapical lobe vestigial; aedeagus with pair of processes laterad of gonopore and slender apical extension arising ventrad of gonopore.

Distribution. India, Thailand.

Remarks. Inclusion of the new species described below does not require significant expansion of the genus concept established by Dash & Viraktamath (1995), although the leg chaetotaxy and structure of the style are more variable than indicated in their genus description (see Description and Remarks below).