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Krisna Kirkaldy 1900

Description

Krisna Kirkaldy

Type species: Krisna strigicollis Spinola, 1852.

Generic characters (Zhang, Zhang & Dai 2008): Body, robust. Head narrower than pronotum; crown short and broad; anterior margin slightly produced; ocelli situated on anterior margin of crown. Face short, broad. Clypeal suture prominent, frontoclypeus elongate. Scutellum triangular, wider than long; forewing with irregular accessory crossveins. Male eighth sternite wide (Figs. 62–65), with many small setae. Subgenital plate slender and elongate, outer margin with several long fine setae laterally. Style relatively slender, apex truncate.

Distribution. Old World tropics except Australia.

Notes

Published as part of Wang, Xian-Yi, Wu, Yun-Fei & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2018, Three new species of the leafhopper subfamily Iassinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from China, pp. 378-388 in Zootaxa 4442 (3) on page 383, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1303707

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Krisna
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Kirkaldy
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Krisna Kirkaldy, 1900 sec. Wang, Wu & Dai, 2018

References

  • Spinola, M. (1852) Tribu IV-Hipocefalocera. Gay's Historia Fisica y Plitica de Chile, 7, 238 - 305.
  • Zhang, Y. L., Zhang, X. M. & Dai, W. (2008) There new species of the genus Krisna Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Iassinae) from China, with a checklist of the genus. Zootaxa, 6 (1783), 40 - 60.