Ceylonoscopus 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 : 101

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5462.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:64145254-E820-4248-8248-F5B259266592
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11626726
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scientific name	Ceylonoscopus Viraktamath
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Genus Ceylonoscopus Viraktamath View in CoL

Ceylonoscopus Viraktamath 2007: 24 View in CoL . Type species: Ceylonoscopus quadripunctatus Viraktamath View in CoL , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Species of Ceylonoscopus resemble those of Idioscopus , but differ in the structure of aedeagus, style and subgenital plates. Subgenital plates have two rows of more or less short, stout setae in proximal half, aedeagus has large atrium as in Busonia with ventral margin prolonged, shaft with median lamellate processes on lateral margin, style with one prominent angle on ventral margin of apophysis proximad of midlength.

Remarks. The genus was adequately described by Viraktamath (2007). At present it contains only one species restricted to Sri Lanka.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Cicadellidae
SubFamily	Eurymelinae
Tribe	Megipocerini