Genus Cofana Melichar, 1926

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cofana Melichar, L. 1926. Monographie der Cicadellinen III. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 23: 273-394 [345].

  Type species:

   Tettigonia quinquenotata Stål, 1870 by subsequent designation, see China, W.E. 1938. Melichar's 'Monographie der Cicadellinen'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 11: 182-185 [185].
• Yasumatsuus Ishihara, T. 1971. Several species of the genus Kolla Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Transactions of the Shikoku Entomological Society 11(1): 14-20 [18].

  Type species:

   Kolla mimica Distant, 1908 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Young, D.A. 1979. A review of the leafhopper genus Cofana (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 81: 1-21 [1] (synonymy of Yasumatsuus)

 

Introduction

The genus Cofana is distributed across the Old World from Africa to the Pacific. In Australia, there are three species found in Queensland and the Northern Territory. They are all larger leafhoppers, pale in colour with dark spots on the head.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Pacific islands, Africa.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Nandewar (NAN), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Diagnosis

Young (1979) provides a comprehensive description of the genus. For the Australian fauna, the ground colour is greenish white with black markings on the head. The only other larger pale species in Australia, Conguinula coeruleopennis (Fabricius) is pale yellowish, usually with a dark band along the upper margin of the closed tegmina.

 

ID Keys

Young 1986: 8–11

 

Diagnosis References

Young, D.A. 1979. A review of the leafhopper genus Cofana (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 81: 1-21 [1]

Young, D.A. 1986. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) Part 3. Old World Cicadellini. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service 281: 1-639 [8–11]

 

History of changes

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