Ceylonoscopus quadripunctatus 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

Ceylonoscopus quadripunctatus Viraktamath

Figs 56A–M .

Ceylonoscopus quadripunctatus Viraktamath 2007: 24–25 , figs 11–23.

Dignosis. Ochraceous wih one round lateral spot surrounded by pale halo near lateral margin of pronotum and another round spot on forewing proximad of milength on corium, black. Male pygofer without ventral process, subgenital plate with two rows of setae in basal half, aedeagus with lateral lamellate processes, atrium, large with ventral wall prolonged ventrally as in Busonia .

Remarks. Viraktamath (2007) adequately described the species and illustrated the male and female genitalia. Black spots on pronotum and forewing along with the male genitalia characters distinguish this species from other species of Idiocerini from the Indian subcontinent.

Figures

FIGURES 56A–M. Ceylonoscopus quadripunctatus Viraktamath: A–D, holotype male habitus, dorsal, lateral views, face (C) and label data (D); E–F, female paratype habitus, dorsal, lateral views; G, male genital capsule, lateral view; H, subgenital plate, ventral view; I, male sternite VIII, ventral view; J, style, dorsal view; K, aedeagus, ventral view; L, connective, dorsal view; M, connective and aedeagus, lateral view.