Aquaelicium typicum forewing after Banaszkiewicz & Szwedo, 2005 and Distant, 1917 (click on image to enlarge it)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Fulgoroidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Superfamilia: Fulgoroidea

Familia: Derbidae
Subfamilia: Otiocerinae
Tribus: Aquaeliciini
Genus: Aquaelicium
Species: A. brunnescens – A. elegantulum – A. typicum

Name

Aquaelicium Distant, 1917

Diagnosis

The genus is characterized by:

  • the forewings have 2 anterior cubital cell, the basal one is more than twice as long as wide,
  • CuA1+2 of the forewing reaches the hindmargin,
  • the pronotum is not extremely curved in side view.

References

  • Banaszkiewicz, M.; Szwedo, J. 2005: Notes on Otiocerinae with description of a new tribe from Madagascar and Africa (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Derbidae), Annales Zoologici, 55(2): 223–241
  • Distant, W.L. 1917: Rhynchota. Part II: Suborder Homoptera. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to The Indian Ocean in 1905, The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Second series. Zoology 17, 273-322
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