Russelliana solanicola

Adult. Body length not given. Head including genal processes pale yellow to whitish, sometimes orange; vertex often pale to dark brown in middle, subtrapezoidal, flat with indented foveae, anteriorly produced into transverse lobe on either side of mid-line, with slightly raised hind margin around lateral ocelli, covered with microscopical setae. Genal processes conical, slender, subacute apically, shorter than vertex, covered with short to moderately long setae. Antenna pale to dirty yellow, segments 3–8 with dark brown apices, segments 9–10 entirely dark brown. Pronotum pale to bright yellow, often of same colour as vertex and distinctly paler than mesonotum, sometimes with bright yellow or dark brown dot in middle. Forewing with pale to dark brown veins becoming darker towards apex, membrane colourless to greyish with indistinct brown patches along veins Cu and Cu1b, at apices of veins R1, Rs, M1+2, M3+4, Cu1a and often between bifurcation of vein M and apical part of cell r1; surface spinules present in apical part of membrane. Legs not described. Abdomen: females generally slightly lighter, with ventrally lighter abdomen. Male paramere with smaller apico-posterior lobe; distal segment of aedeagus moderately elongate, weakly expanding towards apex, with apically subacute anterior process. Female subgenital plate subglobular.

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