Sumangala

Drawing of Sumangala delicatula forewing
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Sumangala sufflava from Singapore
Photo by Cheong Loong Fah
Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research
National University of Singapore
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Family: Derbidae
Tribe: Rhotanini
Genus: Sumangala Distant, 1911
Type species: Sumangala delicatula Distant, 1911, by monotypy.

For a list of other species see Wikispecies

Diagnosis

The genus is characterized by:

• Forewings with 5 costal cells,
• Forewings with an unbranched first median sector (Ms1), the base of which merges briefly with the base of Cu1.

References

• Distant, M.L. 1911: Description of new genera and species of oriental Homoptera. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 8(8): 643.
• 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