Kapsa Dworakowska, 1972

Yang, Xiao, Luo, Guimei & Song, Yue-Hua, 2022, Two new species of the genus Kapsa Dworakowska from the karst area of Southwest China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae), Zootaxa 5174 (2), pp. 195-200 : 195-196

Kapsa Dworakowska

Type species. Typhlocyba furcifrons Jacobi, 1941

Description. Colour yellow or white with or without yellow-whitish markings. Head narrower than pronotum. Crown fore margin weakly produced, broadly rounded apically. Vertex unicolorous or with pair of pre-apical spots or with median apical spot. Eyes grey or black. Face usually unicolorous. Pronotum pale or with dark posterior margin. Mesonotum entirely pale or pale with dark lateral triangles. Forewings yellowish or brownish, usually without spots or other markings.

Pygofer lobe rounded, not extended to apex of subgenital plate. Pygofer ventro-apical membranous area well developed. Subgenital plate with 2-6 long macrosetae. Style with preapical lobe prominent, truncated or expanded with extension. Aedeagus usually with processes. Connective median anterior lobe broad; stem absent or very short or very long.

Notes. This genus currently includes two subgenera. The nominotypical subgenus, Kapsa (Kapsa) differs from Kapsa (Rigida) in lacking a slender sclerotized process at the apex of the median anterior lobe of the connective and in usually having the aedeagal shaft tubular.