Tribe Sikaianini Muir, 1913

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sikiana subgroup Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [31] (misspelling of Sikaiana Distant).
• Sikaianini Muir, F. 1917. The Derbidae of the Philippine Islands. Philippine Journal of Science 12: 49-105 [56].

Introduction

Muir (1913) defined four generic groups based on the shape and venation of the tegmina and this is taken as the first attempt to define a higher classification for the Derbidae. His Group III included those forms in which the forewings (tegmina) are exceptionally long and narrow, more than double the length of the hindwings. The group was further divided into two subgroups, the Sikiana subgroup (derived from a mispelling of Sikaiana Distant although Kirkaldy (loc. cit.) used the mispelling three times so it was not just a typographic error) and the Zoraida subgroup. The tribe was first called Sikaianini by Muir (1917).

Diagnosis

Tegmina exceptionally long and narrow, wings very minute; delicate little creatures, with wings apparently wholly devoted to sound production (Muir 1913).

Stridulatory plate with convex external margin; clavus open; margins of eyes extending to epistomal suture anterior to antennae in area of bridle (Emeljanov 1996).

ID Keys

Emeljanov 1996: 75–76 (Note that couplet labelled "27 (32)" should be changed to "28 (29)" and couplet "27 (32) Clavus closed" to be inserted)

Diagnosis References

Emeljanov, A.F. 1996. On the system and phylogeny of the Family Derbidae (Homoptera, Cicadina). Entomological Review (English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie) 75(2): 70–100 [75–76]

Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [30–31]

General References

Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [30–31]

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