A revision of the tribe Coelidiini of the Oriental, Palearctic and Australian biogeographical regions (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae)
Author
Nielson, M. W.
text
Insecta Mundi
2015
2015-03-20
2015
410
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5181587
1942-1354
5181587
E574C53C-B3FF-4030-94F9-447B68595ABF
Trinoridia
,
gen. nov.
Type
species
,
Trinoridia calcaris
,
sp. nov.
Description
. Moderately small to medium size species. General habitus similar to
Calodia
; aedeagus long, tubular with 3 distinctive processes arranged subapically to apex of shaft, glabrous and/or with accessory spines apically on shaft, sometimes with patch of small teeth on dorsal margin; pygofer glabrous or sparsely setose, sometimes with digitate caudoventral process, never with long caudodorsal process, always with small lobe apically; style with short to long apophysis; subgenital plate glabrous or with few apical setae, never with apical spine.
Etymology.
The name of the genus is a combination of the Latin root
trin
- [= three of each] and suffix -
idia
is derived from the genus
Coelidia
.
Remarks
. The genus
Trinoridia
is distinguished from related genera by the narrow aedeagal shaft with 3 separate, subapical to apical processes. Two new species and 3 species removed from
Calodia
are assigned to this genus. The group is widely distributed from
India
to
Malaysia
.