Colpoptera Burmeister, 1835

Barrantes Barrantes, Edwin A., Zumbado Echavarria, Marco A., Van Dam, Alex R., Helmick, Ericka E., Bartlett, Charles R., Martinez Aponte, Laura V., Ruiz, Alfredo Rodriguez, Bloch, Melody & Bahder, Brian W., 2024, A new species of planthopper in the genus Colpoptera (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Nogodinidae) from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, Zootaxa 5481 (3), pp. 341-352 : 345

Genus Colpoptera Burmeister, 1835

Type species. Colpoptera sinuata Burmeister, 1835 (type by subsequent designation of Distant 1910: 314)

Type species. Colpoptera sinuata Burmeister, 1835

Diagnosis. (Abridged from Gnezdilov & O’Brien 2008). Body elongated, head about as broad as prothorax, eyes prominent. Frons elongate, with distinct median carina. Vertex transverse, anterior margin truncate, posterior margin concave. Pronotum narrow, anterior margin strongly convex, posterior margin concave. Mesonotum at midline longer than vertex + pronotum combined, bearing arcuate anterior transverse carinae and median carina. Forewings elongate and narrowed to rounded apex, with narrow hypocostal plate and many transverse veins apically, hindwings large and functional. Hind tibia with single lateral tooth distally. Male pygofer with nearly straight hind margin (elongate process absent). Aedeagus relatively simple, bilaterally symmetrical, with elongated, usually bifurcated, subapical lateral processes (“phallobase lobe” of Gnezdilov & O’Brien 2008); and with pair of shorter, simple. Gonostyli bearing broad capitulum, narrowing apically with broad lateral tooth.Anal tube elongated. Female sternite VII with rounded median process ( Gnezdilov & O’Brien 2008, fig. 59). Gonoplacs nearly triangular, fused medially; gonocoxa VIII with straight hind margin ( Gnezdilov & O’Brien 2008, figs. 60–62). Anal tube long and narrow, distinctly longer than gonoplacs Gnezdilov & O’Brien 2008, fig. 57).