Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Membracidae → Centrotinae → Monobelini
Braxtonota Dietrich, 2008
Selected references
Dietrich 2008a
Overview
The Neotropical genus Braxtonota is provisionally placed within the centrotine tribe Monobelini (Dietrich 2008a). Unlike some members of this tribe, B. enigmata, the only known species of the genus, lacks extra cucullate setae at the apex of the metathoracic femora.
Taxon images
Braxtonota
1.Braxtonota enigmata
Distribution
Neotropical region: West Indies: Puerto Rico.
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Diagnostic characters
Frontoclypeus, in profile, not projecting ventrad; pronotum with pair of lateral carinae extending posterolaterad from midline, suprahumeral horns absent, posterior process not concealing scutellum laterally; metathoracic femur without extra cucullate setae apically; second valvulae broad near midlength and tapering apically, without large teeth.
Taxonomic constituents
Braxtonota enigmata Dietrich, 2008 Dietrich, 2008
Prepared by
Lewis L. Deitz, Matthew S. Wallace, and Mark J. Rothschild, 5 September 2011.
