Empoasca pipturi, 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 : 143

5. Empoasca pipturi , new species (fig. 27, a-d).

An ochraceous yellow species with the crown nearly twice as broad as its median length, rounded before.

Female genitalia: last ventral segment nearly twice as long as its greatest width, projecting; posterior margin strongly produced with a V-shaped median notch. External male genitalia: plates flat, elongate, longer than the anal style, slightly twisted; genital styles elongate, about three fifths as long as the plates; the apices attenuate, crossing over each other.

Length: to apex of abdomen, 1.75 mm.; to apex of tegmina, 2.5 mm.

Holotype male, allotype female, four male and four female paratypes, Mt.

Alifan, June 27, on Pipturus sp. , Swezey .