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Triknightia Shcherbakov 2021, gen.n.

Description

Triknightia Shcherbakov, gen.n.

TYPE SPECIES. Triknightia mira sp.n .

DIAGNOSIS. Strongly flattened, pronotal paranota and anterior part of head broadly foliaceous, eyes remote from anterior head margin. Head and mouthparts homopterous: rostrum adpressed to body venter, clypeus and lora situated posterior to eyes. Tegmina transformed into hemielytra: their distal parts (membrane) broadly overlapping in repose, wide, membranous, smooth, veinless, sharply separated from sclerotized, veined, punctate proximal parts (corium). Oblique costal fracture inserted between faint anterior branches of pectinate R distal to claval apex. More than two r-m crossveins.

COMPOSITION. Type species.

COMPARISON. In hypertrophied paranota and overlapping membranized posterodistal parts of tegmina, similar to Paraknightia, but in the latter tegmina are tapered beyond claval apex, their overlapping parts are narrow and not clearly separated, the transverse costal fracture is situated near the apex of basal cell before R branches, and there are two r-m crossveins.

ETYMOLOGY. From Triassic and Paraknightia; gender feminine.

Notes

Published as part of Shcherbakov, D. E., 2021, New Curvicubitidae and Paraknightiidae (Homoptera: Cicadomorpha) from the Triassic of Central Asia, pp. 129-134 in Russian Entomological Journal 30 (2) on page 132, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.30.2.02, http://zenodo.org/record/13179152

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Biodiversity

Collection code
SPECIES
Family
Paraknightiidae
Genus
Triknightia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Shcherbakov
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Triknightia Shcherbakov, 2021