Eleazara Distant

Jones, Joshua R. & Deitz, Lewis L., 2009, Phylogeny and systematics of the leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) 2186, Zootaxa 2186 (1), pp. 1-120 : 39

Genus Eleazara Distant

(Pl. 1G)

Eleazara Distant, 1908: 182 .

Type species. E. aedificatura Distant 1908: 182 , fig. 120, by original designation.

Synonymy. None.

Description. Distant (1908): “Head broad, short, angulate, straight in front of eyes and then oblique to apex, which is angulate; ocelli on posterior vertical area; head beneath foliaceous, recurved anteriorly, face elongate, broadest between eyes, much narrowed anteriorly, less so posteriorly; pronotum longer than vertex, the lateral areas laminately subangularly dilated, anterior margin nearly straight, posterior margin concavely sinuate; scutellum with a central elevated crest-like process; legs of moderate length, posterior tibia slightly dilated, outwardly spinose; tegmina rugose and granulose, the veins, especially on apical area, elevated and prominent.”

Species. [3]: aedificatura Distant ; distanti Schmidt ; yangi Cai & He.

Range. China; India (Assam, Dikrang Valley); Indonesia (Sumatra).

Host plants. Unknown.

Material examined. None.

Remarks. The type specimen of E. aedificatura was photographed early on in this study (at BMNH) but was not later available for examination. From the photograph (Pl. 1G), and Distant’s drawing and description (1908: 182), this species appears to be closely related to Ledra and the Ledropsis -like species. Like Ledra (and Chatura ), it has four longitudinal rows (of tubercles—outer rows; of carinae—inner rows) on the pronotum. In Distant’s (1908) illustration, the long metathoracic tarsomere I can clearly be seen, further indicating its affinity to Ledra and the Ledropsis -like species. But like Dusuna and members of the Petalocephala genus group, E. aedificatura has lateral pronotal extensions, demonstrating the plasticity of this latter character across Ledrini . E. aedificatura is known only from the type specimen.