Nilgiriscopus transversus Viraktamath

VIRAKTAMATH, C. A. & YESHWANTH, H. M., 2024, Arboreal eurymeline leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae) of the Indian subcontinent with description of new genera and eight new species, Zootaxa 5462 (1), pp. 1-125 : 70

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5462.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11626684
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scientific name	Nilgiriscopus transversus Viraktamath
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Nilgiriscopus transversus Viraktamath View in CoL

Figs 37 A–L View FIGURES 37 .

Nilgiriscopus transversus Viraktamath 2007: 28–29 View in CoL , figs. 55–65.

Diagnosis. Lemon Yellow. Pronoutm with one small dark bown spot on anterior margin on either side of median line (less prominent or absent in female). Exposed mesonotum with basal triangles black. Forewing corial veins and costal margins fuscous. Male genitalia as in generic diagnosis.

Remarks. Viraktamath (2007) adequately described and figured the species based on one male and two females collected from Coonoor (Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu).

References

Viraktamath, C. A. (2007) New genera and species of idiocerine leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. Biosystematica, 1, 21 - 30.

Figures

FIGURES 37A–L. Nilgiriscopus transversus Viraktamath, holotype male and paratype female: A–B, habitus male, dorsal and lateral views; C, face, male; E, label data; E, female paratype, habitus, dorsal view; F, forewing; G, female abdominal apex, ventral view; H, male genital capsule, lateral view; I, connective, dorsal view; J, style, lateral view; K, connective and aedeagus, lateral view; L, aedeagus, ventral view.