Empoasca pitiensis, 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 : 146

8. Empoasca pitiensis , new species ( fig. 30 , a-c).

A greenish species with obtusely angulate head and distinct genitalia.

Crown obtusely angulate, about 1.5 times as broadly as its median length, not as long as the pronotum; face including anteclypeus more than twice as long as the width between the eyes; pronotum and mesonoturn subequal; pronotum about twice as broad as its median length, narrower than the head including the compound eyes.

External male genitalia: posterior margin of last ventral segment with a deep V-shaped notch extending cephalad for more than a third of the length of the segment; genital plates elongate, diverging, the inner margin slightly sinuate; the apices obtuse. Internal male genitalia: of the type of Empoasca obt11sa (Walsh) with the following differences; genital styles broad at base, gradually tapering to acute divergent apices; lateral processes bifid, not longer than the genital styles; aedeagus simple, without apical, lateral processes. Female genitalia: with the last ventral segment about twice as broad as long; the posterior margin transverse.

Length: to apex of tegmina, 3 mm.; to apex of abdomen, 3.25 mm.

Holotype male, allotype female, four male and three female paratypes, Piti,

May 23, from beans, Swezey .

Figures

FIGURE 30.-Empoasca pitie11sis: a, ventral view of male genitalia; b, lateral view of male genitalia; c, ventral view of female genitalia.