Limentinus Distant, 1917

Wang, Xiu-Dan, Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2018, Four new species of tribe Coelidiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae) from the Afrotropical Region, Zootaxa 4415 (3), pp. 591-600 : 595

Genus Limentinus Distant

Limentinus Distant, 1917: 316 ; Nielson, 1982: 35; Nielson, 1991: 394. Type-species: Limentinus aldabranus Distant, 1917 , original designation.

Size medium, 6.0 to 8.2 mm long. Color testaceous to fuscous, forewings sometimes with transparent band along costal margin.

Body slender. Head wider than long, narrower than pronotum; anterior margin rounded or broad acute. Crown flattened, slightly produced beyond anterior margin of eyes; area between eyes equal to or slightly broader than eye width; lateral margins convergent basally. Ocelli prominent, situated near anterior margin of crown. Pronotum median length about equal to crown but shorter than mesonotum. Forewings elongate, with 3 anteapical cells, outer one closed, and 5 apical cells, appendiX well developed. Face with frontoclypeus flattened, without median longitudinal carina, lateral margin conveX; clypellus long with apeX eXpanded laterally.

Male genitalia. Pygofer with small caudal processes, sometimes with short digitate caudoventral processes. Aedeagus asymmetrical, shaft throughout tubular, glabrous eXcept distal third slightly eXtensive with a few to numerous short to long retrorse spines. Gonopore prominent, subapical. Connective triangular, anterior arm shot. Style short, glabrous, never longer than half of aedeagus. Plate narrow, with spines apically.

Remarks. This genus resembles Krosolus Nielson but can be distinguished by the tubular aedeagus with setaelike spines restricted to the apical third, while the latter also has setiform spines more basad.