Poviliana Boulard, 1997

Delorme, Quentin, Jourdan, Hervé & Mille, Christian, 2015, Description of two new cicada species of the genus Poviliana Boulard (Insecta: Hemiptera, Cicadoidea, Cicadidae) from New Caledonia, Zootaxa 3957 (4), pp. 489-500 : 490

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.4.9
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6103026
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scientific name	Poviliana Boulard, 1997
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Genus Poviliana Boulard, 1997 View in CoL

Poviliana Boulard, 1997: 185 View in CoL . Type species: Melampsalta sarasini Distant, 1914 View in CoL

Among the New Caledonian Cicadettini View in CoL , the genus Poviliana View in CoL is characterized by the following features: forewing veins M and CuA meeting basal cells with their stems confluent; hindwing with six apical cells; pseudoparameres filiform, apically straight; pterostigma hyaline, slender; when viewed dorsally, lateral margin of pronotal collar smooth with only a rounded lateral lobe and completely lacking an anterior lateral tooth or angular projection; median lobe of uncus flat; forewing with radial crossvein vertical; upper lobe of pygofer very small, almost aborted; distance between lateral ocelli no more than two times width of one ocellus and postclypeus with anterior profile in dorsal view well rounded giving head an angular appearance.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
SuperFamily	Cicadoidea
Family	Cicadidae
SubFamily	Cicadettinae
Tribe	Cicadettini