Biology:Confuga

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Short description: Genus of planthoppers

Confuga
HEMI Cixiidae Confuga persephone.png
Drawing of holotype by Des Helmore
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Family: Cixiidae
Subfamily: Cixiinae
Tribe: Oecleini
Genus: Confuga
Fennah, 1975
Species:
C. persephone
Binomial name
Confuga persephone
Fennah, 1975[1]

Confuga is a genus of planthoppers in the family Cixiidae. Its only species is Confuga persephone, a troglobitic (cave-dwelling) planthopper that is endemic to New Zealand. It is the only known species of cave-dwelling planthopper in New Zealand. [2]

The species was first described by Ronald Gordon Fennah in 1975, from specimens found in a cave east of Tākaka, in the South Island of New Zealand.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1  , Wikidata Q104027629
  2. Júlio César do Carmo Vaz Santos; Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira; Ian Millar; Hannelore Hoch (2019). "Conservation status and complementary description of Confuga persephone (Cixiidae): should this species be considered Threatened?". New Zealand Journal of Zoology 46 (1): 61–73. doi:10.1080/03014223.2018.1488751. 

External links

  • Confuga persephone discussed in RNZ Critter of the Week, 29 July 2022

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