Oecleopsis elevatus ( Tsaur, Hsu & Van Stalle, 1988 )

Guo, Hong-Wei, Wang, Ying-Lun & Feng, Ji-Nian, 2009, Taxonomic study of the genus Oecleopsis Emeljanov, 1971 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae: Pentastirini), with descriptions of three new species from China, Zootaxa 2172, pp. 45-58 : 49

Oecleopsis elevatus ( Tsaur, Hsu & Van Stalle, 1988)

Oliarus elevatus Tsaur, Hsu & Van Stalle, 1988: 53 .

Oecleopsis elevatus (Tsaur et al.) , Van Stalle, 1991: 26.

Description. Length (from apex of vertex to tip of fore wings): 3 6.2 mm, Ƥ 7.4 mm.

Face, vertex, pronotum, mesonotum and abdomen brown-black, carinae and borders yellowish; vertex about 1.1 times as long as broad, subapical carina V-shaped; outer sides of vertex black with a yellow spot. Tegmina 2.1 times as long as broad, veins yellowish with brown granules; stigma dark brown; RA unbranched, RP apically trifurcated, MA apically trifurcated, MP apically bifurcated, CuA bifurcated; Sc+R forked at same level as fork CuA1+CuA2; apex with twelve cells. Legs with femora brown, tibiae and tarsi yellowish. Chaetotaxy of hind tarsomere 7/5.

Male genitalia. Ventromedian process in ventral view short, stout, triangular, broadest at base, its apex bluntly pointed. Genital styles symmetrical. Aedeagus in total with five long spines, all directed cephalad. Four apical processes of flagellum tapering, spine on left side of flagellum the longest, with basal half stout, apical half 1/2 width of basal half; right spine bifurcated, the lower longer than the upper one; dorsal spine stout, acuminating to end. Spine on right side of periandrium at apex of aedeagus longer, about 2/3 length of periandrium.

Female genitalia. Caudal border of pregenital sternite shallowly excavated in middle, with two small convex processes submedially. Anal segment rectangular.

Material examined. CHINA: 1 3, 2 Ƥ, Guangxi, Lingchuan County, Lingtian Township, 5-VI-1984 (Z. L. Wu & X. L. Lu) ( NWAFU).

Distribution. China (Guangxi, Taiwan), Japan (Honshu).

Remarks. Oecleopsis elevatus has a long spinose process like O. petasatus , which is inserted at the apex of the right side of the aedeagus, about 2/3 the length of the periandrium. It can be distinguished from the latter by the four longer apical processes of the flagellum, which are all directed cephalad.

This species is recorded here for the first time from the Chinese mainland (Guangxi Province).