''Elica''
[Walker F (1857) Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected at Singapore and Malacca by Mr. A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. ''Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society.'' London 1: 82-100.] is a
monotypic genus
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of
planthoppers
A planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, a group exceeding 12,500 described species worldwide. The name comes from their remarkable resemblance to leaves and other plants of their environment ...
containing the species ''Elica latipennis'' from
Peninsular Malaysia
Peninsular Malaysia, historically known as Malaya and also known as West Malaysia or the Malaysian Peninsula, is the western part of Malaysia that comprises the southern part of the Malay Peninsula on Mainland Southeast Asia and the list of isla ...
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Taxonomy
''Elica latipennis'' is placed in the family Tropiduchidae
Tropiduchidae is a family of planthoppers in the order Hemiptera. There are at least 160 genera and 600 described species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes o ...
and was erected by Francis Walker in 1857. It is the type species in its genus, the subfamily Elicinae and tribe
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Elicini
The Elicini (synonym Gaetuliini) are a tribe of planthoppers in the family Tropiduchidae. The type genus is ''Elica (planthopper), Elica''.
Genera
''Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web'' includes:
# ''Acrisius'' Stål, 1862
# ''Afroelfus'' Gnezdilo ...
, according to ''Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web''.[Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web (FLOW): ''Elica latipennis'' Walker, 1857 (retrieved 14 February 2022)]
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Description
Walker's original description for ''E. latipennis'' states that:[
"Head conical, slightly ascending, with three ridges above; front lanceolate, tetragonal, with three ridges, the lateral pair curved, margins also ridged. Antennæ conical; bristle about twice the length of the preceding part. Prothorax very short. Mesothorax with three keels. Fore wings broad, with numerous transverse veinlets along the costa; discal areolets elongate towards the base of the wing; those exterior more numerous, short and generally hexagonal or pentagonal."
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References
External links
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Illustration of wing veination
''ResearchGate''.
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Elicini
Hemiptera of Asia