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.