Roxasellana stellata Zhang and Zhang, 1998

Lu, Lin, Dietrich, Christopher H., Webb, M. D. & Zhang, Yalin, 2025, Revision of the Oriental Roxasella leafopper group: phylogeny, morphological evolution, biogeography, and description of 14 new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204 (3) : -

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Roxasellana stellata Zhang and Zhang View in CoL

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Roxasellana View in CoL . stellata Zhang and Zhang 1998: 253 View in CoL , 256, fig. 1; McKamey et al. 2014: 193.

Material examined: China: 1♂ (holotype, BMSYS), Kwangtung Prov., Lung-tall Shan, Alt. 6 m, Yiu Vill. , above Tsokokwan , 7 June 1947 , Gressit et Lam . 1♂ (paratype, BMSYS) Kwangtung Prov., between Tsokokwan and Fung-Wan , Kukong District , 200–400 m, 11 June 1947, coll. Gressit ; 1♀ (paratype, NHM), Guangxi Prov., Lingchuan, Lingtian , 5 June 1984, coll. Wu Zhengliang and Lu Xiaolin ; 1♂ (paratype, CAU), Fujian Prov., Dehua, Shuikou , 7 Nov. 1974, coll. Li Fasheng ; 1♂, Hainan Prov., Jianfengling Mountain , May-3-2018 ( NWAFU).

Distribution: China (Hunan, Fu jian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan).

Remarks: Tis species is very similar to R. vietnamensis in its external structure and coloration, but can be distinguished from the later by its aedeagus with dorsal apodeme moderately slender and straight laterally, and aedeagus with apex extended nearly half of the length of the dorsal apodeme (equal in length in later) and the base of shaf curved arcuately rather than angularly in lateral view.