Versicolora, Wei & Wang & Hayashi & He & Pham, 2020

Wei, Cong, Wang, Siyue, Hayashi, Masami, He, Miao & Pham, Hong Thai, 2020, New genus and species of Leptopsaltriini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae) from China and Vietnam, with colour-changing behaviour reported for the first time in Cicadoidea, Zootaxa 4759 (2), pp. 277-286 : 278

Versicolora gen. nov.

Type species. Versicolora ziyongi sp. nov., by present designation.

Etymology. The generic name is derived from the beautiful body colour of species of this genus. The gender is feminine.

Diagnosis. Head including eyes narrower than base of mesonotum; distance between lateral ocellus and corresponding eye slightly wider than distance between lateral ocelli. Postclypeus moderately prominent. Pronotum distinctly shorter than mesonotum excluding cruciform elevation; pronotal collar narrow, (much) ampliate caudolaterally, but not dentate laterally. Wings hyaline, nodal line obvious, tinted with distinct green markings at bases of apical cells, with 8 and 6 apical cells on forewing and hind wing, respectively. Male abdomen distinctly longer than distance from head to cruciform elevation; timbal mostly concealed by timbal cover; male operculum short, just extending beyond posterior margin of sternite II; abdominal sternite III with a pair of tubercle-like projections. Pygofer with dorsal beak and an apical spine on distal shoulder; basal lobes of pygofer absent; upper lobes of pygofer very short but distint, curved inward. Uncus with apex of median uncus lobe bifurcated; lateral uncus lobes large, semicircular; aedeagus thick, tube-like in shape.

Remarks. This new genus appears closely allied to Tanna Distant of Leptopsaltriini , but differs in having a bifurcated (apex of) uncus and a short but distinct dorsal beak of pygofer.