Thabena Stål, 1866

Rui Meng, Yinglun Wang & Daozheng Qin, 2016, A key to the genera of Issini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae) of China and neighbouring countries, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 181, pp. 1-25 : 12

Thabena Stål, 1866

Thabena Stål, 1866a: 208 (type species: Issus retractus Walker, 1857 , by subsequent designation in Stål 1866b: 393).

Cibyra Stål, 1861: 209 (preoccupied, type species: Issus testudinarius Stål, 1854 (= Issus spectans Walker, 1858 ), by original designation).

Gelastyra Kirkaldy, 1904: 280 , new name for Cibyra Stål, 1861 , synonymised by Gnezdilov 2009: 77. Borbonissus Bonfils, Attié & Reynaud, 2001: 217 (type species: Borbonissus brunnifrons Bonfils, Attié & Reynaud, 2001 , by original designation), synonymised by Gnezdilov 2009: 77.

Diagnosis

The genus can be recognized by the following characters: medium to large-sized; frons wide with median carina crossed by transverse carina inferior to its upper margin; hind wing trilobed, veins reticulate, anal lobe rudimentary; first metatarsomere with 8–21 intermediate spines; suspensorium small, situated at base of aedeagus; ventral margin of phallobase smooth at base, aedeagus with a pair of ventral hooks.