Cofana spectra

Cofana spectra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
Type of:	Arthropods
Grade:	Insects
Infraclass:	Winged insects
Squad:	Half-winged
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Infrastructure:	Clypeorrhyncha
Family:	Cicadas
Subfamily:	Cicadellinae
Gender:	Cofana
View:	Cofana spectra
Latin name
	Cofana spectra (Distant, 1908)
Synonym
	Tettigoniella spectra Distant, 1908; Tettigonia albida Signoret, 1853;

Cofana spectra (lat.) - a species of jumping insects of the genus Cofana from the family of cicadas ( Cicadellidae ). Widely distributed in the tropics of the Old World: Africa , Madagascar, Southeast Asia , Australia . The length of the males is 7–8.3 mm, the females are 9–11 mm in whitish color (the head is fawn-yellow with black marks). Pronotum and scutellum are greenish-yellow. They feed on juices from plants of the Poaceae family ^[2] ^[3] .

Notes

↑ Distant, WL 1908. Rhynchota. - Vol. IV. Homoptera and Appendix. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 4: 1-501 [211] [replacement name; for Tettigonia albida Signoret, 1853].
↑ Murray J. Fletcher. Species Cofana spectra (Distant, 1908 ) . Australian Faunal Directory . Environment.gov.au (May 30, 2011). Date of treatment July 19, 2013. Archived on September 4, 2013.
↑ Wilson MR, Turner, JA & McKamey, SH Cofana perkinsi (Kirkaldy 1906 ) . Sharpshooter Leafhoppers of the World (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae subfamily Cicadellinae) . Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. Department of Biodiversity & Systematic Biology (2009). Date of treatment July 19, 2013. Archived on September 4, 2013.

Literature

Young DA 1979. A review of the leafhopper genus Cofana (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 81: 1-21.
Young DA 1986. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) Part 3. Old World Cicadellini. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service 281: 1-639 [8-11].

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[1] Distant, WL 1908. Rhynchota. - Vol. IV. Homoptera and Appendix. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 4: 1-501 [211] [replacement name; for Tettigonia albida Signoret, 1853].

[Cofana-2] Murray J. Fletcher. Species Cofana spectra (Distant, 1908 ) . Australian Faunal Directory . Environment.gov.au (May 30, 2011). Date of treatment July 19, 2013. Archived on September 4, 2013.

[museumwales-3] Wilson MR, Turner, JA & McKamey, SH Cofana perkinsi (Kirkaldy 1906 ) . Sharpshooter Leafhoppers of the World (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae subfamily Cicadellinae) . Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. Department of Biodiversity & Systematic Biology (2009). Date of treatment July 19, 2013. Archived on September 4, 2013.

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