Nicomiinae Haupt, 1929

Synonyms (and unplaced invalid names)
Tolaniinae Haupt, 1929
Selected references
Haupt 1929c
Metcalf and Wade 1965a
Deitz and Dietrich 1993a
Dietrich and Deitz 1993a
McKamey 1998a
Albertson and Dietrich 2005a
Albertson and Dietrich 2006a
Godoy, Miranda, and Nishida 2006a
Overview
See Albertson and Dietrich (2005a) for a revision of the subfamily Nicomiinae, including a key to the genera, and (2006a) for a revision of Tolania.
Taxon images
Nicomiinae
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1.Nicomiia
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2.Tolania
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3.Nodonica bispinigera
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4. Holdgatiella...
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5.Euwalkeria colorata
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6.Eudonica nanella
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7.Stalomia veruta
 
Distribution
Neotropical region: Central Chile north to southern Mexico.
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Diagnostic characters
Head width, including compound eyes, equal to or greater than distance between humeral angles of pronotum (exception: Nodonica). Distance from eye to forewing base less than half eye width (exception: Nodonica). Pronotum with (some Tolania ) or without (most taxa) suprahumeral horns; posterior process absent (most taxa), small and slender (Euwalkeria), or well developed (Nodonica). Scutellum fully visible or nearly so (most taxa) or entirely concealed (Nodonica). Forewing vein R initial division R1+2+3 and R4+5; vein R with 4 or more branches (exception: in some Holdgatiella R with 3 branches); vein M with 3 or more branches reaching apex of wing; claval apex acuminate (most taxa) to truncate or bluntly rounded (Nicomia, few Tolania). Hind wing apical membrane with microtrichia (exception: Holdgatiella with arcuate chaetoids); crossvein m-cu basad of M3+4, apex of cell truncate (exception: crossvein m-cu subparallel to M3+4 before angle and apex of cell acute in Holdgatiella). Male aedeagus L-shaped (in lateral view), its apex projecting posteriorly (most taxa) or aedeagus U-shaped (Nodonica).
Discussion
The monotypic subfamily Nicomiinae includes only the nominotypical tribe Nicomiini.
Taxonomic constituents
Prepared by
Lewis L. Deitz, 10 February 2015.