''Kanaima'' is a genus of
froghopper
The froghoppers, or the superfamily Cercopoidea, are a group of hemipteran insects in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha. Adults are capable of jumping many times their height and length, giving the group their common name, but they are best known ...
s endemic to
Brazil
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Argentina
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belonging to the family
Cercopidae
Cercopidae are the largest family of Cercopoidea, a xylem-feeding insect group, commonly called froghoppers or spittlebugs. They belong to the hemipteran suborder Auchenorrhyncha.
Genera
A-C
*'' Abidama''
*''Aeneolamia''
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Species
* ''
Kanaima katzensteinii Kanaima may refer to:
* Kanaima (froghopper), ''Kanaima'' (froghopper), a genus of insects
* Kanaima, sorcerers in Wapishana beliefs
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Berg, 1879
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Kanaima fluvialis Kanaima may refer to:
* ''Kanaima'' (froghopper), a genus of insects
* Kanaima, sorcerers in Wapishana
The Wapishana or Wapichan (or Wapisiana, Wapitxana, Vapidiana, Wapixana) are an indigenous group found in the Roraima area of northern Brazi ...
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Lallemand, 1924
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Kanaima fusca Kanaima may refer to:
* ''Kanaima'' (froghopper), a genus of insects
* Kanaima, sorcerers in Wapishana
The Wapishana or Wapichan (or Wapisiana, Wapitxana, Vapidiana, Wapixana) are an indigenous group found in the Roraima area of northern Brazi ...
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Lallemand, 1927
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Kanaima nigra Kanaima may refer to:
* ''Kanaima'' (froghopper), a genus of insects
* Kanaima, sorcerers in Wapishana
The Wapishana or Wapichan (or Wapisiana, Wapitxana, Vapidiana, Wapixana) are an indigenous group found in the Roraima area of northern Brazi ...
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Brasil, RS
Excluded species
Four species formerly enclosed in ''Kanaima'' was transferred to ''
Mahanarva''
Distant, 1909.
Taxonomic revision of Kanaima Distant (Hemiptera, Cercopidae, Ischnorhininae)
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* '' Mahanarva vittata'' Walker, 1851
* '' Mahanarva fortunata'' Lallemand, 1924
* '' Mahanarva radiata'' Walker, 1851
* '' Mahanarva dubia'' Stancik & Cavichioli, 2003
References
Schmidt E. 1910 - Neue Gattungen und Arten der Subfamilie Cercopinae Stal, ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Cercopiden (Hemiptera-Homoptera). Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin 76: 53-112
Auchenorrhyncha genera
Cercopidae
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