Kapsa Dworakowska, 1972

Yang, Meixia, Cao, Yanghui & Zhang, Yalin, 2013, Taxonomic study of the genus Kapsa Dworakowska with a new subgenus, and new combinations and records for Tautoneura Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini), Zootaxa 3630 (1), pp. 117-142 : 118

Kapsa Dworakowska, 1972

Kapsa Dworakowska, 1972: 402 ; Dworakowska, Nagaich & Singh, 1978: 243; Chiang & Knight, 1990: 215 Type species: Typhlocyba furcifrons Jacobi, 1941

Description. Ground color pale, yellow-whitish to light brownish. Body slim. Head narrower than pronotum. Vertex slightly produced medially with coronal suture distinct, usually not extending beyond midlength of vertex, nearly reaching anterior margin of vertex in few species. Face narrow, relatively long. Mesonotum with basal triangles indistinct. Forewing with fourth apical cell short, first apical cell broad, AA vein absent. Hind wing with submarginal vein present or absent on costal margin.

Male abdominal apodemes usually short, not or slightly exceeding 3rd sternite. Anal tube appendage usually prominent and hooked, rarely rudimentary.

Male pygofer with dorsal appendage present, movably articulated to dorsal margin; lobe with few fine scattered setae, sometimes more numerous adjacent to base of subgenital plate, with several microsetae at hind margin of inner membrane, without macrosetae. Subgenital plate narrowly triangular, with angulate subbasal projection, with oblique row of 3–6 marginal macrosetae, with irregular rows of short stout microsetae subbasally and row of rigid marginal microsetae in distal half, with some rigid microsetae on distal disc. Paramere apex varied, usually with second extension. Connective lamellate, central lobe wide, manubrium usually short and narrow. Aedeagal shaft tubular or compressed, with or without dorsoapical denticuli, with more or less developed preatrium, dorsal apodeme usually well developed and compressed anteriorly; gonopore apical or subapical on ventral surface.

Distribution: India; Nepal; Sri Lanka; Vietnam; Indonesia; Papua New Guinea; China (Fujian, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Taiwan, Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan).