Levu

drawing of forewing of Levu vitiensis, male lectotype (click on image to enlarge it)

Family: Derbidae
Tribe: Rhotanini
Genus: Levu Kirkaldy, 1906
Type species: Levu vitiensis Kirkaldy, 1906, by monotypy.

For a list of all species see Wikispecies

The genus is characterized by:

The forewings have 5 narrow costal cells and are smaller and more narrow compared to the species of Rhotana, Rhotanella and Dichotropis.
The facial carinae always meet in front of the eyes.
The forewings are powdered but the powder is often lost in museum specimens.
In the forewing M leaves Sc+R usually near the base of the basal median cell.
Elaborate colour patterns on the forewings (like in Rhotana and Rhotanella) are missing.
The male pygofer has never prominent lateral projections.

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906: Leaf-hoppers and their natural enemies. Hawaii. Sugar Plant. Assoc., Entomol., Bull. 1: 1-479.
Zelazny, B. 1981: The Philippines species of Rhotanini (Homoptera: Derbidae) and their distribution outside the Philippines. Pacific Insects, 23(3-4): 213-285. PDF
Zelazny, B. and Webb, M.D. 2011: Revision of the planthopper tribe Rhotanini (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Derbidae). Zootaxa, 3071: 1–307. Preview

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