Nogodinidae


Nogodinidae is a family of planthoppers. They have membranous wings with delicate venation and can be confused with members of other Fulgoroid families such as the Issidae and Tropiduchidae. Some authors treat it as a subfamily of the Issidae.

Description

Some of their key features are a frons that is longer than wide and a reticulate wing venation. They are less than 2 cm long. The antenna arises well below the eye, has the base clubbed and flagellum unsegmented. The lateral ocelli are outside the margins of the face. The face has carinae on the edge. On the hind leg, the second tarsal segment has an apical spine arising from it. The tibia of the hind leg also has spines towards the tip. An important family character is found in the shape of the male genital structure, a style that is longer than broad. Most members of this family are forest species.

Taxonomy

Four subfamilies are included in BioLib.cz:
;subfamily Bladininae Kirkaldy, 1907
  1. Bladina Stål, 1859 - central and South America
;subfamily Gastriniinae Fennah, 1987
  1. Gastrinia Stål, 1859 - Brasil

[Colpopterinae]

Auth.: Gnezdilov, 2003 - central America, southern Africa
  1. Bumerangum Gnezdilov, 2012
  2. Caudibeccus Gnezdilov & O'Brien, 2008
  3. Colpoptera Burmeister, 1835
  4. Dozierana Gnezdilov, 2018
  5. Jamaha Gnezdilov & O'Brien, 2008
  6. Neocolpoptera Dozier, 1931
  7. Ugoa Fennah, 1945

[Nogodininae]

Auth.: Melichar, 1898; tribes and representative genera:
;Bilbiliini Gnezdilov, 2017 Bilbilis Stål, 1861
;Epacriini Gerstaecker, 1895Epacria Gerstaecker, 1895
;Lipocalliini Fennah, 1984Lipocallia Kirkaldy, 1906
;Mithymnini Fennah, 1967Mithymna Stål, 1861
;Nogodinini Melichar, 1898Nogodina
;Pisachini Fennah, 1978Pisacha Distant, 1906
;Tongini Kirkaldy, 1907Tonga Kirkaldy, 1900
;Varciini Fennah, 1978Varcia Stål, 1870Convarcia Detya Miriza Paravarcia Probletomus

Extant genera ''[incertae sedis]''

  1. Hadjia Dlabola, 1981
  2. Iranissus Dlabola, 1980
  3. Issarius Metcalf, 1950
  4. Issidius Puton, 1898

Fossil taxa

  • subfamily †Ambitaktoinae Szwedo, 2019
  • Approximately 10 genera incertae sedis
Several fossil species have been described from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar, Eocene Baltic, Miocene Chiapas, and Miocene Dominican amber. Additionally, a tribe, Celinapterixini, has been erected on the basis of an Argentinian fossil that could not be placed in any of the tribes of extant Nogodinid hoppers.