Auranticopona egregia ( Stål, 1864 ), Lu & Dietrich & Webb & Zhang, 2025

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) : -

Auranticopona egregia ( Stål, 1864) comb. nov.

( Fig. 20A–E)

Selenocephalus egregius Stål 1864: 66 , comb. nov. ( Fig. 20A–E). Drabescus laetisigna (Stål) , Distant 1908: 307, misidentification; Distant 1918: 42, fig. 22, misidentification.

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Roxasella egregia (Stål) , Zhang and Webb 1996: 20, fig. 505; Viraktamath 1998: 174, figs 290–293.

Material examined: 1♀, Myanmar: Myita , Doherty ‘ Drabescus laetisigna Walk’. ( NHM) .

Remarks: Tis species was described from an unknown number of female specimens (syntypic) with the following data: ‘Birmah. (Mus. Holm.)’. Te depository refers to the Museum Holmen in Copenhagen, Denmark. Distant (1908: 307) recorded the specimen examined above from ‘Tennasserim; Myita (Doherty)’ under the name Drabescus laetisigna Walker (see below). Te specimen he subsequently recorded from ‘Lower Burma: Mergui (W. Doherty)’ is missing from its mount in NHM and which erroneously bears a red holotype disc. As both Zhang and Webb (1996) and Viraktamath (1998) referred to seeing the Stål holotype, this specimen should be regarded as the lectotype, with the former credited with the designation, as Stål made no mention of specimen number.