Roxasella losbanosa Merino, 1936

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) : -

Roxasella losbanosa Merino, 1936

( Fig. 13A–M)

Roxasella losbanosa Merino 1936: 360 , fig. 2; Zhang and Webb 1996: 20, pl. 1, figs 13, 234–240.

Diagnosis: Head thin, with fuscous markings on vertex, pronotum, exposed mesonotum. Pygofer lobe with caudal and ventral margins smooth. Style apophysis irregularly rounded. Aedeagus with shaf relatively short and broad, with two pairs of short apical processes.

Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe with many macrosetae, caudal and ventral margins smooth. Valve broad, triangular. Subgenital plate long, triangular. Style apophysis irregularly rounded posteromedially with acute lateral projection. Connective short, Y-shaped with stem equal to lateral arms. Aedeagus with shaf relatively short and broad, with two pairs of short apical processes, one curved anterodorsal, other extended ventrolateral; dorsal atrium developed caudally, gonopore large, apical on posterior surface.

Material examined: 1♂, 1♀, Philippines, Luzon , Mt. Makiling, Baker ( NHM, donated by USNM) .

Distribution: Philippines.

Remarks. Tis species was described from the holotype and paratypes from the Philippines with the following data, holotype: 'Luzon, Laguna Prov., Los Banos, (type, Baker collection, U.S. N.M.)', paratypes: 'Mindanao, Surigao, Lanao, Zamboanga’. It was noted that the paratypes were slightly darker. Te holotype was examined by Zhang and Webb (1996) and images and figures of the same are provided here.