Celopsis Hamilton, 1980

Okudera, Shigeru & Hayashi, Masami, 2024, Two new species of the macropsine leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae) from Japan, with description of a new subgenus, Zootaxa 5418 (2), pp. 172-182 : 173

Celopsis Hamilton

Pediopsoides (Celopsis) Hamilton, 1980: 896 .

Celopsis : Dai, Li & Li, 2018: 20.

Type species: Macropsis dapitana Merino, 1936

Head about as wide as pronotum; face slightly swollen in lateral view; male lorum narrow; space between coronal pits as wide as ocelli; crown slightly obtuse. Pronotum expanded and produced over head, with striae oblique but faint; posterior margin shallowly concave. Mesonotum as long as pronotum. Forewing with three anteapical cells and five apical cells.

Male genitalia. Pygofer with some short inner spines near caudoventral margin. Subgenital plate slender. Style slender, apophysis of style hooked dorsad. Dorsal connective slender and fused with tenth segment, its process directed caudoventrally at near base of tenth segment. Aedeagus slender with stout dorsal apodeme; gonopore situated apical or slightly ventral.

Distribution. Japan (Ryukyus); China, Philippines, Indonesia.

Remarks. Celopsis can be distinguished from Pediopsoides by the forewing with three anteapical cells, and the straight style and dorsal connective fused with the tenth segment.Especially, the feature of the dorsal connective fused with the tenth segment is easily distinguishable from all other macropsine genera. On the basis of the characteristics, Celopsis was upgraded to a genus rank from a subgenus of Pediopsoides (cf. Dai et al. 2018). Among the seven described species of this genus, four species are assigned to new subgenus described below.