taxonID	type	description	language	source
ED2CB920CF45FFACE0D0FEAFFCDAFCCD.taxon	etymology	Etymology: The generic name is derived from ‘ Africa’ and ‘ elf’ (fantastic character). Type species: Afroelfus bothryogaster sp. n. Diagnosis: Head and body covered by setae, more dense on metope, clypeus, anal tube, and gonoplacs. Metope wide, flat, joint with coryphe at obtuse angle (in lateral view), with median carina running through post- and anteclypeus and sublateral carinae (Figs 2, 3, 11). Lateral keels and median carina of metope elevated. Scape short, cylindrical. Pedicel nearly globular, with sensory organs. Coryphe transverse, very narrow, with slightly concave anterior margin and distinctly concave posterior margin (Figs 1, 10). Coryphe with keeled margins. Pronotum with median carina, anterior margin convex, posterior margin concave (Fig. 10). Paradiscal fields of pronotum are covered by eyes. Paranotal lobes wide, elongate. Mesonotum has no carination, nearly as long as pronotum medially, with widely rounded apex. Meso- and metanotum are divided by deep furrow (Fig. 1). Metanotum with two furrows converging apically in the shape of a triangle. Forewings with setae on costal and claval margins on both sides, 1.5 times as long as the body, very narrow, with only 2 longitudinal veins joint apically and rudimentary triangular clavus (Figs 1, 2, 9). Hind wings rudimentary, in shape of small scales. Hind tibia with 7 apical spines and single lateral spine distally. First and second metatarsomeres equal in length, with ventral surface covered by long setae. First metatarsomere with 2 latero-apical spines and entire row of 7 or 8 intermediate spines with subapical setae. Second metatarsomere with only 2 latero-apical spines. Pretarsus expands the apices of claws, with two long, narrow dorsolateral plates. Abdomen squat, weakly convex (in lateral view) (Fig. 2). Abdominal sternite III with a row of 7 sensory pits and the sternites IV – VI each with a row of 8 sensory pits on their hind margins medially (Fig. 5). Hind margin of sternite VII widely concave. Hind margin of pygofer with pair of semicircular processes alongside anal tube (Figs 4, 12). Gonoplacs hemisphaerical, with no carination. Anal tube wide, short, narrowing apically (Fig. 12). Anal column short. Comparison: As judged by the wide metope with median carina, narrow coryphe, and squat body, the new genus is closely related to the genera Gamergus Stål, 1859 and Gamergomorphus Melichar, 1906 from southern Africa. The latter is also characterized by stenoptery (Melichar 1906), but less so than the new genus.	en	Gnezdilov, Vladimir M. (2012): A new stenopterous genus of the tribe Gaetuliini Fennah (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Tropiduchidae) from southern Africa - particular intercontinental convergence. African Invertebrates 53 (2): 637, DOI: 10.5733/afin.053.0203, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.053.0203
ED2CB920CF46FFADE083FD38FD8AFA7D.taxon	description	Figs 1 – 5, 9 – 12 Etymology: From the Greek βόθρΟΣ (hollow) and γαστήρ (belly). Description: Metope yellowish brown. Postclypeus black, except for light yellow markings near metopoclypeal suture; anteclypeus black. Rostrum dark brown. Scape and pedicel yellowish light brown. Genae, coryphe, pro- and mesonotum light yellow. Metanotum yellowish dark brown. Paranotal lobes black. Episterna and epimera dark brown or black except for yellow vertical stripe on mesoepimera. Forewings dark brown with yellow marginal spots and yellow clavus with dark brown margin. Hind coxae yellowish brown. Femora dark brown or black. Tibiae and tarsi dark brown except for yellowish brown first and second metatarsomeres. Apices of spines black. Abdominal tergites I – II light yellowish white except for black or dark brown medial parts (Fig. 1). Abdominal tergites III – VII black, each with light brown spots combined in two lateral stripes and with brown patches on hind margins (Figs 1, 2). Abdominal sternites black except for light yellow areas around sensory pits (Fig. 5). Pygofer brown, with dark brown semicircular processes. Anal tube black, with yellowish hind margin. Gonoplacs brown or dark brown. Gonocoxa VIII dark brown or black. Body length 4.0 mm, forewing length 6.5 mm. Holotype: ♀ SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape: Cosy Mountain, Kamieskroon (30 ° 11 ' S 17 ° 56 ' E), 830 m, 16. x. 2007, J. Deckert, at light (SAMC).	en	Gnezdilov, Vladimir M. (2012): A new stenopterous genus of the tribe Gaetuliini Fennah (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Tropiduchidae) from southern Africa - particular intercontinental convergence. African Invertebrates 53 (2): 637, DOI: 10.5733/afin.053.0203, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.053.0203
