Genus Vivaha Distant, 1906

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• Vivaha Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Homoptera. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 3: 1-503 [307].

  Type species:

   Vivaha facialis Distant, 1906 by original designation.

Introduction

This is a genus of three species characterised by the head being produced in front of the eyes as a vertical laminate plate. Only one species is recorded from Australia with another in New Guinea and the third in lower Myanmar and the Andaman Islands.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Head (including eyes) much narrower than pronotum, the vertex longly produced in front of eyes into a broadly laminate process, very narrow and centrally sulcate above, laterally very broad and flattened, its apex rounded, its margins carinate, face small and marginally carinate; rostrum mutilated in the two specimens available for description; pronotum very short, basally deeply angularly emarginate; mesonotum tricarinate; legs moderately long and slender; tegmina considerably ampliated towards apex, the costal margin a little convex, the apical margin truncate, a little obliquely angulate anteriorly and posteriorly, the posterior margin concavely sinuate before the commencement of the apical area, the lower longitudinal vein furcate beyond its middle, oblique veins on lower half of apical area separating five distinct, long, oblique, cellular areas, followed by about four shorter ones, there are also four apical marginal areas; wings shorter and a little narrower than tegmina (Distant 1906)

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1906. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera—Homoptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 3 xiv 503 pp. [307]

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