Sophonia orientalis (Matsumura, 1912)

Aguin-Pombo, Dora & Freitas, Carlos, 2008, An annotated check list of the Cicadomorpha and Fulgoromorpha (Hemiptera) of the Madeira and Salvages archipelagos, Zootaxa 1762, pp. 1-28 : 19

Sophonia orientalis (Matsumura, 1912)

Nirvana orientalis Matsumura, 1912: 282

Sophonia orientalis ; Li and Chen, 1999: 51; Aguin-Pombo et al., 2006: 21-22

Distribution. Oriental species recently introduced to Madeira archipelago and Canary Islands where is becoming an invasive species (Aguin-Pombo et al., 2006; Webb and Viraktamath. 2004). MADEIRA: reported from many localities of southern part (Aguin-Pombo et al., 2006). Food plants. A polyphagous species feeding on many plant species of Anacardiaceae , Passifloraceae , Asteraceae , Euphorbiaceae , Lauraceae , Myrtaceae , Malvaceae , Convolvulaceae , Geraniaceae , Zingiberaceae , Polygonaceae , Solanaceae , Fabaceae , Globulariaceae and Caricaceae (Aguin-Pombo et al., 2006) .

Subfamily Penthimiinae Kirschbaum, 1868