Muiralevu
From Species-ID
Family: Derbidae
Tribe: Rhotanini
Genus: Muiralevu Zelazny, 1981
Type species: Levu africana Muir, 1926, by original designation.
For a list of all species see Wikispecies
Diagnosis
The genus is characterized by:
- The forewings have 4 costal cells with a cross-vein between the bases of Ms1b (or Ms1) and Cu1 (these bases and the cross-vein are part of the basal median cell).
- On the forewing the Ms1 branch is at the apex of the basal median cell or very close to it, with Ms1a usually forming a characteristic angle a short distance from that fork. At that point a cross-vein connects Ms1a to M forming a small rhomboid cell distad of the basal median cell.
- The Sc+R fork on the forewings is located near the 1st costal sector.
- On the hindwings the tip of R is usually branched.
- The male pygofer often has prominent pointed lateral projections
References
- Muir, F. 1926: Notes on some African Derbidae (Homoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 9th Ser., vol. 18,
227–240.
- 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
