Aquaelicium

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Aquaelicium typicum forewing after Banaszkiewicz & Szwedo, 2005 and Distant, 1917 (click on image to enlarge it)

Family: Derbidae
Tribe: Aquaeliciini
Genus: Aquaelicium Distant, 1917
Type species: Aquaelicium typicum Distant, 1917, by species name typicum.

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Diagnosis

The genus is characterized by:

  • the forewings have 2 anterior cubital cell, the basal one is more than twice as long as wide,
  • CuA1+2 of the forewing reaches the hindmargin,
  • the pronotum is not extremely curved in side view.

References

  • Banaszkiewicz, M. and Szwedo, J. 2005: Notes on Otiocerinae with description of a new tribe from Madagascar and Africa (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Derbidae), Annales Zoologici, 55(2): 223-241.
  • Distant, W.L. 1917: Rhynchota. Part II: Suborder Homoptera. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to The Indian Ocean in 1905, The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Second series. Zoology 17, 273-322.