Gaiani 2017a
Flórez-V. 2019a
Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Membracidae → Stegaspidinae
Problematode Gaiani, 2017
Selected references
Overview
Gaiani (2017a) created this genus to include two new species from Venezuela that are of uncertain position with Membracidae. Flórez-V. (2019a) described a third species of Problematode, this one from Colombia. Based on features of its late-instar nymphal exuviae, he placed the genus as of uncertain position within the subfamily Stegaspidinae.
Taxon images
Problematode
Distribution
Neotropical region: Venezuela: Coastal Montane Forests (Gaiani 2017a) and Colombia (Flórez-V. 2019a).
Diagnostic characters
Pronotum without posterior process; forewing venation reticulate, anal vein reaching claval suture before diverging abruptly toward anal margin of wing; mesothoracic trochanters fused; meso- and metathoracic coxal cavities exposing thoracic sternites.
Prepared by
Lewis L. Deitz and Stuart H. McKamey, 10 September 2020.