Neoscopus ceylonensis 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 : 103-122

Neoscopus ceylonensis Viraktamath

Figs 58A–M .

Neoscopus ceylonensis Viraktamath 2007: 27 , figs 37–50.

Diagnosis. Ochraceous. A halo around each ocellus, exposed mesonotum with basal triangles black. Posterior submargin of pronotum, one spot on exposed mesonotum between basal triangles pale fuscous. Male genitalia as in generic diagnosis.

Remarks. Viraktamath (2007) adequately described the species based on one male and one female collected from Sigiria, Sri Lanka.

Acknowledgement

We are grateful to Mr. M.D. Webb ( BMNH) for various helpful suggestions and also for the images of types of Idiocerines in the Natural History Museum, London. We are grateful to Mr. Ken Merrifield and Mr. Fernley Symons (both BMNH) for imaging the specimens. Dr. Thierry Bourgoin (Parish Museum) kindly helped to image the Lethierry’s types of Idiocerus . Dr. Stuart McKamey ( NMNH) searched for some types of idiocerines in the museum for this study. Dr. Qinquan Xue ( Yangling , China) offered critical comments on an earlier draft of this paper. Critical comments by Dr. Chris Dietrich (Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign) on an earlier draft improved the presentation considerably.

Figures

FIGURES 58A–M. Neoscopus ceylonensis Viraktamath: A–B, E–G, holotype male habitus, dorsal, lateral views, face (E) and label data; C–D, F, female paratype habitus, dorsal, lateral views, face (F); H, female abdomen, ventral view; I, female sternite VII, ventral view; J, male genital capsule, lateral view; K, style, dorsal view; L, connective and aedeagus, lateral view; M, connective and aedeagus, ventral view.