Nakula multicolor Distant, 1918

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) : -

Nakula multicolor Distant, 1918

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Nakula multicolor Distant 1918: 39–40 , fig. 20 ( Myanmar); Zhang and Webb, 17–18, pl. 1, fig. 7 (type habitus); Viraktamath

1998: 173, figs 281–289 ( Tailand); Shang et al. 2006, figs 1–7 ( China).

Material examined: Lectotype ♀ (designated by Zhang and Webb 1996: 18); Myanmar, Mergui, W. Doherty ( NHM); 1♂ China, Yunnan Prov., Mengla Wangtianshu landscape, 21 April 2018, coll. Lu Lin.

Remarks: Tis species was described from an unspecified number of specimens (syntypic) with the following data: ‘Lower Burma; Mergui (W. Doherty)’. It can be distinguished by its distinctive orange and dark brown markings including a dark spot against each ocellus.

Roxasellana Zhang and Zhang

Roxasellana Zhang and Zhang 1998: 253 , 256. Type species: Roxasellana stellata Zhang and Zhang 1998 .

Distribution: China and Vietnam.

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R. stellata Zhang and Zhang 1998: 253 , 256, fig. 1A–H.

R. vietnamensis ( Dietrich et al. 2020: 247–248, fig. 2H–U)

Remarks:

Roxasellana is similar to Roxasella and Tenompoella based on the characters of bright orange markings on the head, thorax, and forewings and shape of the anterior margin of the vertex. It can be distinguished from the former by the aedeagus situated dorsad of the connective and linked to it by membrane, and from the later by the absence of any processes of the connective, forewing with large inner apical cell, and dorsal margin of face markings lacking a dark band.