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Equirria Distant 1917

Description

Genus Equirria Distant, 1917

Equirria Distant, 1917: 290.

Type species: Equirria phalaena Distant, 1917, by original designation. Monotypic, endemic genus.

Diagnosis. Combination of the following characters: Antennae large. Subantennal process absent. Head rounded in profile. Frons narrow but not linear (carinae not contiguous). Lateral pronotal carinae and ventral lateral margins of pronotum not foliately raised. M forked distinctly basad of level of apex of clavus. This genus is similar to Aquaelicium, for further comments see genus diagnosis of Aquaelicium.

Notes

Published as part of Löcker, Holger, Löcker, Birgit & Holzinger, Werner E., 2009, Revision of the Derbidae of Seychelles Islands (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha), pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 2221 on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.190082

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Derbidae
Genus
Equirria
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Distant
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Equirria Distant, 1917 sec. Löcker, Löcker & Holzinger, 2009

References

  • Distant, W. L. (1917) Rhynchota. Part ii: Suborder Homoptera. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr J. Stanley Gardiner, M. A. Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London, Zoology, 17, 273 - 322.