Burmascopus fasciolatus (Distant)

VIRAKTAMATH, C. A. & YESHWANTH, H. M., 2024, Arboreal eurymeline leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae) of the Indian subcontinent with description of new genera and eight new species, Zootaxa 5462 (1), pp. 1-125 : 30

Burmascopus fasciolatus (Distant)

Figs 14A–N .

Idiocerus fasciolatus Distant 1908: 186 . Maldonado-Capriles 1964: 93, figs 10, 11.

Burmascopus fasciolatus (Distant) : Viraktamath 2007: 23, figs 1–10.

Diagnosis. Sexually dimorphic in coloration, male without black round spots on fore margin of head that are present in female, basal triangles on mesonotum in both sexes dark brown, male with additional pair of round spots, one on either side of median line anterad of scutoscutellar suture. Face with brownish patches in both the sexes. Male pygofer with ventral process not reaching distal margin, subgenital plates shorter than pygofer in lateral view. Other features as in generic diagnosis.

Remarks. Viraktamath (2007) adequately described and figured this species including male genitalia and the female sternite VII.

Figures

FIGURES 14A–N. Burmascopus fasciolatus (Distant): A–D, lectotype female: A–B, dorsal and lateral views; C, face, D, label data; E–H, paralectotype male: E–F, dorsal and lateral views; G, face; H, label data; I, male genital capsule, lateral view; J, style, dorsal view; K, connective and aedeagus, dorsal view; L, connective and aedeagus, lateral view; M–N, aedeagal lateral flanges, dorsal (M) and lateral (N) views.