Thaia Ghauri, 1962

Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2012, A new species of Thaia Ghauri (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, with a key to Chinese species, Zootaxa 3382, pp. 66-68 : 66

Thaia Ghauri, 1962

Thaia Ghauri, 1962: 253

Type species: Thaia oryzivora Ghauri, 1962 Hardiana Mahmood, 1967: 14

Type species: Hardiana assamensis Mahmood, 1967

Body usually brown or light brown. Head width approximately equal to greatest width of pronotum, anterior margin slightly produced medially; posterior margin almost parallel to anterior margin. Vertex length shorter than distance between eyes, coronal suture distinct. Pronotum usually with obvious impressed, nearly diamond-shaped pattern medially. Forewing with 2nd apical cell broad at apex; outer apical cell subequal or slightly shorter in length than 3rd.

Male genitalia: Pygofer with few setae on lateral surface and usually with distinct process on ventral margin, dorsal process present or absent. Anal tube with obvious process. Subgenital plate with numerous macrosetae on outer margin and with several irregular microsetae on dorsal margin. Style simple, with straight and tapering apex, and with ridge-like preapical lobe. Aedeagus with one or more processes, in some cases without any process; gonopore on ventral or dorsal side of shaft. Connective nearly Y-shaped, usually with large developed central lobe between two arms.

Distribution: Oriental region ( India; Pakistan; Thailand; Vietnam; Indonesia; Malaysia; Singapore; China; Japan; Sri Lanka; Sikkim; Burma; Java) and Afrotropical region ( Congo).