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Cofana Melichar 1926
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Genus Cofana Melichar, 1926
Cofana Melichar, 1926: 345; Yasumatsuus Ishihara, 1971: 18.
Genus Cofana can be distinguished from other genera by the aedeagus devoid of paraphyses and basal aedeagal processes and the hind wing without vein R2+3 (Young, 1986). Cofana species are mainly associated with grasses and rice fields (Krishnakutty & Viraktamath, 2008). There are 25 described species of Cofana of which 8 are known to be present on the Indian subcontinent.
See Young (1979) for further generic description.
Distribution. Afrotropical, Australasian, Oriental.
Notes
Published as part of Naveed, Hassan & Zhang, Yalin, 2018, Newly recorded leafhoppers of the subfamily Cicadellinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with description of a new species from Pakistan, pp. 285-295 in Zootaxa 4504 (2) on pages 287-288, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4504.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/2606314
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- Scientific name authorship
- Melichar
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
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- Hemiptera
- Family
- Cicadellidae
- Genus
- Cofana
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- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cofana Melichar, 1926 sec. Naveed & Zhang, 2018
References
- Melichar, L. (1926) Monographie der Cicadellinen III. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 23, 273 - 394.
- Ishihara T (1971) Several species of the genus Kolla Distant. Transactions of the Shikoku Entomological Society, 11, 14 - 20.
- Young, D. A. (1986) Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae), Part 3, Old World Cicadellini. Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Experimental Station, 281, 1 - 639.
- Krishnankutty, S. M. & Viraktamath, C. A. (2008) Notes on the leafhopper genus Cofana Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) from India with description of two new species. Zootaxa, 1874, 35 - 49.
- Young, D. A. (1979) A review of the leafhopper genus Cofana (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 81, 1 - 21.