Leofa (Prasutagus) curtulus (Motschulsky)

Duan, Yani & Zhang, Yalin, 2009, Review of the grassland leafhopper subgenus Leofa (Prasutagus) Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Chiasmini), Zootaxa 1972, pp. 35-43 : 38

Leofa (Prasutagus) curtulus (Motschulsky)

( Figs 1I –J )

Jassus ? curtulus Motschulsky, 1863: 98 . Sri Lanka.

Oneratulus curtulus (Motschulsky), Vilbaste, 1975: 234 , fig. 2. Deltocephalus oneratus Melichar, 1911: 108 ; Distant, 1908: 383, fig. 241. Sri Lanka. Synonymised by Vilbaste, 1975: 233.

Leofa (Prasutagus) curtulus, Zahniser, 2008: 18 .

Material examined. Sri Lanka: syntype Ψ, D. oneratus Melichar ( HUB).

Remarks. The male type of curtulus from Sri Lanka was examined and figured by Vilbaste (1975). The male syntype of D. oneratus from Budapest was examined by Distant (1908) and the female from Berlin by one of us (Webb). P. curtulus is very similar to P. pulchellus (Distant) but based on Vilbaste’s (1975) figure of the aedeagus of the former (reproduced here) the shaft is narrower apically and there are two rather than one dorsal processes (compare figs 1F and 1I). Also, the figure of Distant (1908), reproduced here ( Fig. 1J ) shows two dark patches on the fore margin of the vertex that are absent or indistinct in pulchellus .

Figures

FIGURE 1. A – J, Leofa (Prasutagus) species. A – H, Leofa (Prasutagus) pulchellus Distant (A – G, India H, China), A: head and thorax; B: face; C: male pygofer, lateral view; D: subgenital plate, style and connective, dorsal view; E: aedeagus and paraphysis dorsal view; F: aedeagus and paraphysis, left lateral view; G: aedeagus ventral view; H: apex of left pygofer process; I – J: Leofa (Prasutagus) curtulus (Motschulsky), I, aedeagus, left lateral view (type male, Jassus? curtulus Motschulsky, from Vilbaste, 1975); J, dorsal habitus (syntype male Deltocephalus oneratus Melichar, from Distant, 1908).