Empoasca: Brief Summary
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Empoasca is a genus of leafhoppers belonging to the family Cicadellidae subfamily Typhlocybinae.
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Body color green to yellowish, with variable symmetrical patches on head and thorax; coronal suture not reaching midlength of crown (Figs 18a, 20a, 24a, 26a); forewing with RP and MP’ stalked (Fig. 22) or separated (Fig. 28), hindwing with CuA unbranched (Fig. 23, 29); male pygofer, with fine sparse setae distally, macrosetae absent, ventral pygofer appendage present (in some species processes crossed in dorsal view), free from pygofer lobe, at least for halflength of pygofer (Figs 1, 9); subgenital fig broad basally, basal series of setae on outer margin and an oblique series of macrosetae from base to apex bi-seriate basally (Figs 5, 13); paramere elongate, curved, with apical teeth (Figs 6, 14); aedeagus with preatrium present, shaft without processes or occasionally with pair of processes, gonopore apical on ventral surface, dorsal apodeme poorly developed or absent (Figs 7, 8, 15, 16); anal tube processes distinct.
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- Yu X, Yang M (2014) Two new species of the leafhopper subgenus Empoasca ( Empoasca) Walsh (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae, Empoascini) from China ZooKeys 437: 25–32
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- Xiaofei Yu
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