Satsumanus Ishihara, 1953

Sunil, Sunil & Meshram, Naresh M., 2024, A new species of the leafhopper genus Satsumanus Ishihara, 1953 from India (Hempiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), Zootaxa 5418 (4), pp. 393-398 : 394

Genus Satsumanus Ishihara

Satsumanus Ishihara, 1953: 193 .

Type species: Eutettix satsumae Matsumura, 1914: 191 .

Broad, somewhat flattened species. Color brownish, with numerous ramose or vermiculate brownish false veins in elytra. Head broader than pronotum: crown slightly longer medially than next to eyes, disc declivous basally, fore margin distinctly turned up with shallow sulcation behind; coronal suture distinct; eyes large; ocelli in fore margin near eyes; face broad; anteclypeus long, slightly broadening downward; frontoclypeus broad and nearly flat; ocellocular area very narrow. Pronotum short and broad, fore margin semicircular, hind margin sinuate, sides very short. Scutellum rather large. Elytra with two closed, long, and more or less parallel-sided subapical cells, claval veins connected by cross vein, appendix narrow. Spinulation of fore tibiae 1+4 Valve short, broad tri- angular. Plates long, broad basally, ending in narrow, weakly sclerotized apical part, with several uniseriate macrosetae. Style small, apophyse short and rather thick: the preapical angle of the style below apophyse totally rounded. Connective long, not fused, Y-shaped, branches not strongly diverging. Penis with short but robust, square, basal socle, stems arising laterally from dorsal part of socle, pair of long basal appendages below stems: phragma forming two large, quadrangular plates. Gonopores large, somewhat oblique, on ventral surface rather far from apex. Pygofer sclerotized, but rather deeply incised behind anal tube, side lobes roundish triangular with several spines, no appendage. Anal tube membranous.