Haupt 1929c
Metcalf and Wade 1965a
Deitz 1975a
McKamey 1998a
Godoy, Miranda, and Nishida 2006a
Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Membracidae → Darninae
Cymbomorphini Haupt, 1929
Selected references
Taxon images
Cymbomorphini
1.Cymbomorpha
2.Cymbomorpha
3.Eumela
4.Eumela, nymph
5.Fermeria spinolai
6.Germariana terminalis
Distribution
Neotropical region: Brazil and Argentina north to Neotropical Mexico.
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Diagnostic characters
Forewings entirely exposed in repose, usually with 1 r-m crossvein (exception: some Cymbomorpha without r-m, but with R4+5 and M1+2 confluent for short distance near apex and divergent beyond). Metathoracic coxa and trochanter with (some Cymbomorpha) or without apposed processes, femur without longitudinal row of cucullate setae, tiba with 3 longitudinal rows of cucullate setae. Abdominal segment III-VI or III-VIII with dorsal pairs of faint fenestrae, some Cymbomorpha with elevated middorsal tuberosities between fenestrae.
Taxonomic constituents
Cymbomorpha Stål, 1866 Stål, 1866
Eumela Stål, 1867 Stål, 1867
Fermeria Sakakibara, 2000 Sakakibara, 2000
Germariana Sakakibara, 1998 Sakakibara, 1998
Prepared by
Lewis L. Deitz, Matthew S. Wallace, and Mark J. Rothschild, 16 April 2011.
