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COLOR: Body yellow to orange, abdomen thickly set with minute points; pterostigma 
green in female, dark brown dorsally and long, narrow, Rs nearly straight, marginal 
white ventrally in male. Forewings whitish, cells large, cubital larger than medial. Hind 
beautifully marked with brown (Fig. la). wings large, 0.9 as long as forewings. Meta- 
STRUCTURE: Body surface finely punctate, tibia with basal spur, 1 outer and 4 inner apical 
nearly glabrous dorsally, venter sparsely spines. Proximal segment of metatarsi with 
pubescent. Head deflexed, wider than meso- 2 large, black claws. 
scutum. Vertex short with shallow discal im- Male proctiger short with large caudal lobe 
pressions, lateral ocelli on raised areas at as figured. Forceps as long as proctiger in 
posterior corners, anteriorly smoothly con- lateral view, curved caudad, tapering to blunt 
tinuous with genae. Genae not touching but tip, small anterior lobe near base; in caudal 
narrowly separated, produced as short blunt view stout, straight to black incurved tips, 
lobes, with prominent pubescence. Antennal Aedeagus a simple hook. Female genital seg- 
sockets incomplete next eyes, antennae 1.6 ment large, shorter than rest of abdomen; 
times as long as width of head. Thorax broad, dorsal valve long, nearly straight to blunt tip; 
well arched. Pronotum long, rounding down ventral shorter than dorsal, sharp tipped, 
anteriorly. Forewings about 2.5 times as long holotype, male, allotype, female, num er- 
as wide, membrane somewhat thickened, ous paratypes, Houhora, October 3 and 4. 
Fig. 1. Psylla conspicua n. sp. a. Forewing; b, lateral aspect of female cauda; c, lateral aspect of male cauda. 
