Kinnaridae

Kinnaridae is a family of fulgoroid planthoppers. This is a small family with a little more than 20 genera and about a 100 species. The family was erected by Muir in 1925 and most members are found in the Oriental and Neotropical regions and only a few in the Nearctic and Palaearctic regions.

Kinnaridae
Oeclidius sp., Arizona, USA
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder:	Fulgoromorpha
Superfamily:	Fulgoroidea
Family:	Kinnaridae Muir, 1925
Subfamilies
Kinnarinae Prosotropinae

Family members are identified by a combination of characters. Adults have a small head that is narrower than the thorax with the vertex narrow and about as long as it is wide. The frons is longer than wide and lacks a median keel but has two lateral carinae. Three simple eyes are usually present. The antenna is small with a globose pedicel. The sucking mouthparts which form the rostrum or beak reaches between the hind femur or the tip of the abdomen and has a long segment at the tip. The pronotum is short and wider than the head. The wings have transparent membranes and the forewings long and parallel sided. The venation consists of claval veins that join near the apex without any granulation (more accurately termed as sensory pits, a character that is used to separate them from the closely related Meenoplidae). The hind tibia do not have any lateral spines.^[1]

Genera

These 25 genera belong to the family Kinnaridae:

• Adolenda Distant, 1911 ^{c g}
• Apocathema ^{c g}
• Atopocixius Muir, 1926 ^{c g}
• Bashgultala Dlabola, 1957 ^{c g}
• Dineparmene Fennah, 1945 ^{c g}
• Entithena ^{c g}
• Eparmene Fowler, 1904 ^{c g}
• Eparmenoides Fennah, 1945 ^{c g}
• Kinnacana Remane, 1985 ^{c g}
• Kinnapotiguara Xing, Hoch & Chen, 2013 ^{c g}
• Kinnara Distant, 1906 ^{c g}
• Kinnoccia Remane, 1985 ^{c g}
• Lomagenes Fennah, 1945 ^{c g}
• Luiuia ^{c g}
• Micrixia Fowler, 1904 ^{c g}
• Microissus Fennah, 1947 ^{c g}
• Nesomicrixia Emeljanov, 1984 ^{c g}
• Oeclidius Van Duzee, 1914 ^{c g b}
• Oreopenes Ramos, 1957 ^{c g}
• Paramicrixia Distant, 1911 ^{c g}
• Perloma Emelyanov, 1984 ^{c g}
• Prosotropis Uhler, 1895 ^{c g}
• Quilessa Fennah, 1942 ^{c g}
• Southia Kirkaldy, 1904 ^{c g}
• Valenciolenda Hoch & Sendra, 2021 ^{c g[2]}

Data sources: i = ITIS,^[3] c = Catalogue of Life,^[4] g = GBIF,^[5] b = Bugguide.net^[6]

References

1. Liang, Ai-Ping (2001). "First Record of the Genus Adolenda Distant (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea:Kinnaridae) from China, with Description of One New Species" (PDF). Zoological Studies. 40 (4): 365–370.
2. Hoch, H; Sendra, A; Montagud, S; Teruel, S; Ferreira, RL (2021). "First record of a cavernicolous Kinnaridae from the Old World (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha, Kinnaridae, Adolendini) provides testimony of an ancient fauna". Subterranean Biology. 37: 1–26. doi:10.3897/subtbiol.37.60483. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
3. "Kinnaridae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
4. "Browse Kinnaridae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
5. "Kinnaridae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
6. "Kinnaridae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-17.

External links

• FLOW database