Empoasca macarangae, Metcalf, 1946

Metcalf, Z. P., 1946, Homoptera, Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 105-148 : 142

4. Empoasca macarangae , new species (fig. 26, a, b).

A pale greenish-yellow species with an obtuse, slightly subangulate vertex which is not quite as long as the pronotum; mesonotum longer than the pronotum.

Female genitalia: last ventral segment elongate, longer than broad; the posterior margin produced at the median half, nearly straight. External male genitalia: plates very long, longer than the anal spine, gradually divergent; inner margin nearly straight, the outer margin and dorsal margin slightly sinuate; apices obtuse, with a number of stout spines; tenth segment with a short, recurved spine. Internal male genitalia: aedeagus very short, only about a fourth as long as the genital plates; genital style elongate, narrow, about half as long as the genital plates; apex deflected to a short acute spine which is directed laterad; lateral processes about as long as the genital style, converging, slender, the tips produced into a slender acute spine.

Length: to apex of tegmina, 3.25 mm.; to tip of abdomen, 2.75 mm.

Holotype male, Mt. Alifan , May 21, from Macaranga sp. , Usinger ; allotype female, Mt. Alifan , May 21, Usinger; paratypes, four males and six females, Mt. Alifan, from Macaranga sp. , Swezey and Usinger.