McKamey 2008a
Wallace 2010a
Wallace 2011a
Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Membracidae → Smiliinae
Smilirhexia McKamey, 2008
Selected references
Overview
The Neotropical genus Smilirhexia was only recently described (McKamey 2008a). Wallace (2011a) discussed the genus in his overview and morphological phylogenetic analysis of the Smiliini, Telamonini, and their relatives.
Taxon history
Previously associated with the tribe Smiliini (McKamey 2009a), the genus Smilirhexia is at present of uncertain position (incertae sedis) within the subfamily Smiliinae (Wallace 2011a).
Taxon images
Distribution
Host plants
Unknown (McKamey 2008a).
Prepared by
Matthew S. Wallace, Lewis L. Deitz, and Mark J. Rothschild, 27 February 2012.