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Hyantiini Sanborn 2018, n. gen.

Description

Key to the Hyantiini genera

Muraoides n. gen. is the fourth genus classified within the tribe Hyantiini along with Quesada Distant, 1905b (two species), Mura Distant, 1905c (one species), and Hyantia Stäl, 1866 (2 species).

1 Body length greater than 25 mm ........................................................................ 2

- Body length less than 25 mm ........................................................................... 3

2 Head including eyes narrower than base of mesonotum, space between pronotal dilations less than width of abdomen, lateral margins of pronotum rounded, basal cell of fore wing distinctly longer than broad, range from Texas to Argentina .......................................................................................... Quesada Distant, 1905b

- Head including eyes as wide as or wider than base of mesonotum, space between pronotal dilations equal to greatest width of abdomen, lateral margins of pronotum angulate, basal cell of fore wing twice as long as broad, known from Brazil and French Guiana............................................................................... Hyantia Stäl, 1866

3 Body length greater than 30 mm, head as wide as mesonotum, lateral pronotal margins strongly angulate, uncus narrowing from base, known from Panama.......................................................... Mura Distant, 1905c

- Body length less than 25 mm, head wider than mesonotum, lateral pronotal margins weakly angulate, posterior uncus as wide as uncus base, known from Costa Rica....................................................... Muraoides n. gen.

Notes

Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2018, Two new genera and two new species of cicadas from Central America (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae), pp. 149-160 in Zootaxa 4418 (2) on page 159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1245052

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cicadidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Sanborn
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
tribe
Taxonomic concept label
Hyantiini Sanborn, 2018 sec. Sanborn, 2018

References

  • Distant, W. L. (1905 b) Rhynchotal notes XXXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, 15, 478 - 486. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745480509442837
  • Distant, W. L. (1905 c) Cicadidae and Fulgoridae. Biologia Centrali Americana; contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America, 1, 140 - 146.
  • Stal, C. (1866) Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. Hemiptera Africana, 4, 1 - 276, pl. 1.