The rediscovery of the holotype of Kotonisia kanoi Matsumura, 1938 with notes on Matsumura's type specimens of Fulgoroidea (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha)
Author
Tsaur, Shun-Chern
text
Zootaxa
2009
2315
66
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.275420
af21f050-0c3b-4742-91e9-6330af79b255
1175-5326
275420
Genus
Benna
Walker 1857
Benna
Walker 1857
, 90; Tsaur 1988, 76
Bennaria
Melichar 1914
, 175, synonymised by
Fennah 1970
, 46
Kotonisia
Matsumura 1938
, 153.
n. syn.
Type
species:
Benna capitulata
Walker
(by monotypy)
Remarks.
The genus
Kotonisia
is transferred from
Meenoplidae
to
Cixiidae
based on the following combination of characteristics: the absence of heavy granulations on the claval veins; more than 8 terminal branches on the tegmen; the presence of a carina separating the frons from the vertex, far removed from the posterior margin of the head.
FIGURE 1.
a.
Benna kanoi
(Matsumura)
. Head, frontal view; b. Lateral view.
The
type
specimen examined is not in good condition but, even though the characteristic lateral processes on the fourth abdominal segment were broken at the tip (left hand side) or lost altogether (right hand side), it was sufficient to determine the tribal status and place the genus in synonymy with
Benna
Walker.