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
Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Membracidae
Nicomiinae Haupt, 1929
Synonyms (and unplaced invalid names)
Tolaniinae Haupt, 1929
Selected references
Overview
Taxon images
Nicomiinae
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Holdgatiella...
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Distribution
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
Nicomiini Haupt, 1929 Haupt, 1929
Prepared by
Lewis L. Deitz, 10 February 2015.