Membracidae of Gabon: the genus Hamma Buckton, 1905 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) with description of three new species
Author
Loudit, Sandrine Mariela Bayendi
Author
Durante, Antonio
Author
Susini, Antonio
text
Zootaxa
2014
3838
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323
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3838.3.5
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Hamma
Buckton, 1905
Hamma
Buckton, 1905
;
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London
, series 2, IX, 9: 330.
Amitrochates
Distant, 1916;
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History
, VIII, 17: 327 (
type
species
Amitrochates grahami
Distant, 1916
); synonymized in
Capener 1955
: 376.
Type
species
Hamma nodosum
Buckton, 1905
Geographical range.
The genus
Hamma
is entirely Afrotropical (
Wallace & Deitz 2004
).
Diagnosis (mainly based on
Buckton 1905
and
Capener1968
).
Genus of tribus Centrotini Amyot and Serville, 1843; pronotum convex, tuberculate; posterior pronotal process bisinuate, and bi- up to quadrinodate, robust and arching over scutellum; scutellum wider than long, basally a little convex, slightly apically upturned and broadly concavely emarginate. Tegmina with a large pterostigma, and five apical and two discoidal cells.