Sakakibara and Creão-Duarte 2000a
McKamey 2017b
McKamey 2020a
Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Membracidae → Smiliinae → Thuridini
Paraphetea Sakakibara and Creão-Duarte, 2000
Synonyms (and unplaced invalid names)
Flynnia McKamey, 2017
Selected references
Overview
The genus Paraphetea includes two species, shown below (McKamey 2020a).
Taxon images
Paraphetea
Distribution
Neotropical region: Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru (McKamey 2020).
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Diagnostic characters
The pronotum of Paraphetea lacks the strong posterior keel observed in the genus Thuris (McKamey 2020a). McKamey (2020a) provided a key to both genera and their species.
Prepared by
Stuart H. McKamey, Lewis L. Deitz and Mark J. Rothschild, 12 August 2020.
