Flavina Stål, 1861

Gnezdilov, Vladimir M., 2009, Revisionary notes on some tropical Issidae and Nogodinidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (1), pp. 75-92 : 84

Genus Flavina Stål, 1861

Flavina Stål, 1861: 209 . Type species: Flavina granulata Stål, 1861 , by original designation. Dolia Kirkaldy, 1907: 95 , syn. nov. Type species: Hiracia walkeri Signoret, 1861 , by original designation.

Comments. I have examined the holotype of Flavina granulata , the type species of the genus Flavina (see GNEZDILOV & WILSON 2007: Figs. 5–6 ) and compared it with the original description of Hiracia walkeri , the type species of the genus Dolia ( SIGNORET 1861: 57, pl. 2, Figs. 3, 3a, 3b ). Both species share the following features: elongate metope with a median and two short sublateral keels joining at its upper margin, beetle-like and convex fore wings, and hind tibia with 5–6 lateral spines. Accordingly, I consider them congeneric. Hiracia walkeri was described from India and erroneously cited by METCALF (1954) from Senegal.

Figures

Figs. 1–6. 1–4 – Thabena retracta (Walker, 1857), specimens from Sarawak: 1 –J, holotype, dorsal view; 2 – same, lateral view; 3 – same, face; 4 –♀, head, dorsal view. 5–6 – Gergithoides carinatifrons Schumacher, 1915, specimens from Taiwan: 5 – J, dorsal view; 6 – ♀, frontal view.