taxonID	type	description	language	source
03A987EF0B59CD1F2A8665E9FB4AC7B4.taxon	discussion	Remarks. This genus may be distinguished from other Vartini by the following combination of features: subgenital plates fused to valve, aedeagus articulated with connective, and well developed subapical lobe of the style with rather elongate rugulose apophysis.	en	Xing, Ji-Chun, Li, Zi-Zhong (2015): Species checklist for the tribe Vartini Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 438-442, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.3.8
03A987EF0B59CD1F2A8665E9FB4AC7B4.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China, Indo China (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) and the Pacific (Sabah).	en	Xing, Ji-Chun, Li, Zi-Zhong (2015): Species checklist for the tribe Vartini Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 438-442, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.3.8
03A987EF0B5ACD1C2A8661C2FD49C491.taxon	materials_examined	Type Material. Holotype ♂, CHINA: Guangxi Autonomous Region, Shangsi County, Shiwadashan, 9 April 2012, coll. Zaihua Yang (GUGC).	en	Xing, Ji-Chun, Li, Zi-Zhong (2015): Species checklist for the tribe Vartini Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 438-442, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.3.8
03A987EF0B5ACD1C2A8661C2FD49C491.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Guangxi) (Fig. 11).	en	Xing, Ji-Chun, Li, Zi-Zhong (2015): Species checklist for the tribe Vartini Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 438-442, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.3.8
03A987EF0B5ACD1C2A8661C2FD49C491.taxon	discussion	Remarks. This new species is similar to Xenovarta ankusha Viraktamath in having the aedeagal shaft twisted at mid length, slightly arched in lateral aspect; its subapex with a process; and gonopore subapical. It can be distinguished from the latter by the aedeagal shaft with a lamellar subapical process, approximately sickle-shaped; style apophysis fingerlike and without transverse rugulae; pygofer side with middle of dorsal margin and ventral margin strongly inflexed.	en	Xing, Ji-Chun, Li, Zi-Zhong (2015): Species checklist for the tribe Vartini Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 438-442, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.3.8
03A987EF0B5ACD1C2A8661C2FD49C491.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The new species name is derived from the Latin words “ falcata ”, indicating the subapical of aedeagal shaft with a sickle-shaped process.	en	Xing, Ji-Chun, Li, Zi-Zhong (2015): Species checklist for the tribe Vartini Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 438-442, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.3.8
