Swezeyaria viridana, Metcalf, 1946

Metcalf, Z. P., 1946, Homoptera, Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 105-148 : 117

1. Swezeyaria viridana , new species (fig. 8, a-d).

A dull-green species tending to fade to ochraceous green with the carinae of the head marked with fuscous; the eyes brown; the stigmata! spot fuscous and the segments of the abdomen marked with testaceous laterad.

Crown nearly three times as long as the width between the eyes; the lateral margin bowed outward; the median carina fading out anteriorly. Head including the compound eyes only about half the width of the pronotum. Pronotum very short. Mesonotum nearly as long as the head and pronotum combined.

Male genitalia with the pygofer short, ringlike; the genital styles elongate, flat, meeting on the median line for about three fourths of their length, then the inner margin suddenly excavated and the styles narrowed to elongate triangular teeth which are directed dorsad and overlapping at the apex; the anal segment elongate, produced into an elongate triangular median process below the anal style.

Length: to apex of abdomen, 4.6 mm.; to apex of tegmina, 6.3 mm.

Holotype male, two paratype males, Ritidian Point, June 2, on Pandanus , TODO