Eilithyia Distant

Eilithyia Distant Eilithyia Distant, 1912: 184. Type species: E. insularis Distant, by monotypy. Diagnosis: head relatively short, broadly produced in front of eyes; frons longer than broad, with median carina bifurcate anteriorly; pronotum tricarinate, with anterior margin arched anteriorly and posterior margin obtuse-angled excavated; mesonotum tricarinate; fore wings relatively narrow and slender, corium without granulation, costal cell without cross veins; Cu 1 forking well before or about level of junction of claval veins, which extending to about middle of clavus; nodal line forming a zigzag transverse line; with 5���7 subapical and 16���21 apical cells, subapical cells as long as apical; hind tibiae with 3 spines laterally and 6 apically, basal metatarsal segment with 6 spines apically, second metatarsal segment with 2 spines apically. Male genitalia with gonostylus relatively long and narrow, tapering to apex in distal half, dorsal edge with a stubby, dorsoposteriorly directed prominence near middle and a hook-like tooth beyond this prominence.
Published as part of Wang, Rong-Rong, Liang, Ai-Ping & Webb, Michael D., 2008, The Oriental planthopper genus Eilithyia Distant (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Tropiduchidae) with description of one new species, pp. 63-68 in Zootaxa 1676 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274059
{"references":["Distant, W. L. (1912) Descriptions of New genera and species of Oriental Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 8 (9), 181 - 194."]}