Ulopsina Dai, Viraktamath & Zhang 2012
Creators: name: Viraktamath, C. A.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Ulopsina

description: Ulopsina Dai, Viraktamath & Zhang
Ulopsina Dai, Viraktamath & Zhang 2012: 3 –5. Type species: Ulopsina sinica Dai, Viraktamath & Zhang, by original designation.
Sordid yellow with face dark brown dorsally; with dark, dense and course pits on dorsum and dorsal area of face, forewing with pits paler and confined to clavus and corium.
Body more or less depressed. Head wider than pronotum, with anterior margin rimmed. Crown short and broad anteriad of eyes, lateral margins more or less parallel, anterior margin almost truncate, slightly shorter medially than laterally; ocelli on crown situated midway between mid-line and lateral margin of crown slightly in front of eyes. Face wider than long, gena incurved, with subgenal groove, without subgenal suture; antennal ledges prominent with antennal pit deep; clypellus long and narrow exceeding genal curve; labium long reaching mesothoracic coxae. Eyes rounded, prominent and projecting. Pronotum slightly humped and anteriorly declivous, anterior margin convex, posterior margin sinuate, lateral margins not carinate; about 2x as wide as long medially, with perceptible lateral and lateroanterior depressions. Mesonotum shorter than pronotum. Forewing venation prominent, raised, without additional cross veins, claval veins separate, with three closed subapical and five apical cells, appendix absent. Hind wing well-developed, with well-developed submarginal vein and four apical cells. Forefemur with scattered narrow setae, anterodorsal (AD), anteroventral (AV), anteromedian (AM) and intercalary row (IC) not differentiated. Hind femur distal setae 2+0. Hind tibia flattened dorsally, rounded ventrally with narrow setae in basal half of rows AD and AV and four stouter setae on elevated bases in distal half; apical transverse row of cucullate setae spine-like. Hind basitarsus with irregular narrow acute setae and apical transverse row with four longer narrow acute setae.
Male pygofer fused to valve. Anal segments short, without anal collar or process. Subgenital plates neither segmented nor with macrosetae. Style elongate, anterior part shorter than posterior part, gradually tapered caudally, distal end dorsally upturned, with series of setae along lateral margin.Aedeagus either differentiated into basal theca and distal everted endotheca or not, with well-developed dorsal apodeme, shaft tubular with or without basal and apical processes, gonopore apical,
Remarks. Dai et al. (2012) described this genus from China and also recognised two new species. They also discussed about the peculiar features of this genus which shares characters with the Ulopini, Coloborrhinini and Mesargini and treated it as unplaced in Ulopinae. During this study one new species was discovered which has been tentatively placed in this genus and because of some peculiar male genitalia characters a new subgenus is described for it. The two subgenera of Ulopsina can be recognised by the following key.
description: Published as part of Viraktamath, C. A. & Webb, M. D., 2019, Revision of the Ulopinae leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) of the Indian subcontinent, I. Ulopini genera: Daimachus, Radhades and Ulopsina, pp. 557-577 in Zootaxa 4613 (3) on page 564, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4613.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/3239923