Genus Nirvanguina Zhang & Webb, 1996

Nirvanguina placida (Evans), type species of Nirvanguina Zhang & Webb.

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• Nirvanguina Zhang, Y. & Webb, M.D. 1996. A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 65(1): 1-103 [18].

  Type species:

   Lamia placida Evans, 1966 by original designation.

Introduction

This genus was regarded as being a monotypic endemic of the Australian region with an odd little (4–4.6 mm) species distributed between Papua New Guinea and the Wet Tropics of North Queensland. However, Lin et al. (2014) added a second species from China and noted that an additional undescribed species is known from Thailand. It seems likely therefore that the genus is Oriental with an extension into the Australian region.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Hind femur with 2+2+1 apical setae; head and thorax with orange markings; margins of forewings not marked with orange; laterofrontal sutures of face extended to corresponding ocellus; fore tibia with 1+4 doesal spines; vertex not elevated posteriorly; forewing without crossvein between claval veins, outer subapical cell not extended to costal margin, inner apical cell closed, fourth apical cell small, appendix broad (Zhang & Webb 1996).

ID Keys

Zhang & Webb 1996: 10

Diagnosis References

Zhang, Y. & Webb, M.D. 1996. A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 65(1): 1-103 [18]

General References

Lu, L., Zhang, Y.L. & Webb, M.D. 2014. Nirvanguina Zhang & Webb (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), a new record for China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3779(5): 597–600

Zhang, Y. & Webb, M.D. 1996. A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 65(1): 1-103 [18]

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