Petalocephala cephalotes Distant

VIRAKTAMATH, C. A., WEBB, M. D. & YESHWANTH, H. M., 2025, Leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae of the Indian subcontinent: 2. Genera Digitata Wang, Li & Dai, Latycephala McKamey, Petalocephala Stål and Thlasia Germar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with description of six new species, Zootaxa 5623 (1), pp. 1-71 : 13

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Petalocephala cephalotes Distant View in CoL

Figs 2E–G View FIGURES 2 .

Petalocephala cephalotes Distant 1916: 218 View in CoL .

Diagnosis. Female. Crown lateral margins straight for half-length in front of eyes then convergent with broadly rounded apex. Resembling P. kempi but differs in having the crown slightly shorter than interocular distance whereas in the latter the crown is much longer (1.4 ×) than interocular distance.

Description. Distant (1916) adequately described the external features of this species. Additional features are as follows. Crown margin yellowish white; median suture not prominent, lateral margins in front of eyes straight for half-length and then convergent, apex broadly rounded; about 0.85× as long medially as interocular distance, about 1.2× as long as median length of pronotum. Pronotum with lateral margins parallel sided. Mesonotum as long as median length of pronotum.

Material examined. INDIA: SYNTYPE ♀, “Coonoor, Nilgiri Hills, B.40”, “ Petalocephala cephalotes Dist. , type”, “Type”, “ Syntype ” ( BMNH) .

Remarks. Distant (1916) described this species from unspecified number of specimens (syntypic) with the following data: “Nilgiri Hills; Coonoor (T.V. Campbell)”.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Cicadellidae
Genus	Petalocephala