Tambinia Explained

Tambinia is a genus of planthoppers (Hemiptera) in the family Tropiduchidae and typical of the tribe Tambiniini (erected by Kirkaldy in 1907); species are found in Australia and Southeast Asia.

Description

These are small insects, body length less than 10 mm. Width of head rounded in front (through eyes) less than width of Pronotum. Forehead and mesonotum with three carinae and the ocelli are very small. The hind tibiae have three spines.

Taxonomy

In a 1982 revision (Fennah, 1982) Tambinia was included in the tribe Tambiniini, along with the genera: Athestia, Biruga, Garumna, Garumnella, Kallitambinia, Kallitaxila, Lanshu, Neotaxilanoides, Nesotaxila, Ossoides, Sumbana and Tauropola. Tambinia is most similar to Nesotaxila, Kallitaxila and Kallitambinia^[1]

Species

The genus Tambinia was established in Carl Stål in 1859 for three species from Sri Lanka: Tambinia languida Stål, Tambinia debilis Stål and Tambinia rufoornata Stål. Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web currently lists:

1. Tambinia atrosignata Distant, 1906 — Sri Lanka^[2]
2. Tambinia bambusana Chang & Chen, 2012
3. Tambinia bizonata Matsumura 1914 — Japan, Taiwan
4. Tambinia capitata Distant, 1906
   1. Tambinia conus Wang & Liang, 2011 — New Guinea Tambinia debilis Stål, 1859 — Sri Lanka
5. Tambinia exoleta Melichar, 1914^[3]
6. Tambinia fasciculosa Melichar, 1914
7. Tambinia guamensis Metcalf, 1946
8. Tambinia inconspicua Distant, 1906
9. Tambinia languida Stål, 1859 — Sri Lanka - type species
   1. Tambinia macula Wang & Liang, 2011 — Malaysia: Borneo Tambinia menglunensis Men and Qin in Men, Qin and Liu, 2009^[4]
10. Tambinia pitho Fennah, 1970
    1. Tambinia robustocarina Wang & Liang, 2011 — Malaysia: Sabah Tambinia rubrolineata Liang in Liang and Jiang, 2003
11. Tambinia rubromaculata Distant, 1916 — Sri Lanka
    1. 1. Tambinia rufoornata Stål, 1859 — Sri Lanka Tambinia sexmaculata Wang & Liang, 2011 — Australia: Kuranda Tambinia similis Liang in Liang and Jiang, 2003 - southern China, Vietnam
12. Tambinia sinuata Men & Qin, 2012
13. Tambinia sisyphus Fennah, 1956^[5]
14. Tambinia theivora Fennah, 1982
15. Tambinia venusta (Kirkaldy, 1906)
16. Tambinia verticalis Distant, 1916
17. Tambinia zonata Muir, 1931^[6]

External links

• • Web site: Tambinia. 2013. hemiptera-databases.org. 1 August 2013.
• Web site: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist. Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D.. 2011. 24 September 2012. Species 2000: Reading, UK..

Notes and References

1. Rong-rong Wang, Ai-Ping Liang (2011) Taxonomic review of the genus Tambinia Stål (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Tropiduchidae) with descriptions of four new species from the Pacific region. ZooKeys 132: 13-31.
2. Distant WL (1906) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, Rhynchota 3 (Heteroptera-Homoptera), Taylor & Francis, London, 175–491.
3. Melichar L (1914) Monographie der Tropiduchinen (Homoptera). Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereins in Brünn 53: 1-145.
4. Men QL, Qin DZ, Liu GL (2009). A Taxonomic Study of the Genus Tambinia Stål (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Tropiduchidae) from China. Entomotaxonomia 31 (1): 6-8.
5. Fennah R. G. (1956). Homoptera: Fulgoroidea. Insects of Micronesia 6 (3): 1-211.
6. Muir F (1931). New and little-known Fulgoroidea in the British Museum (Homoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 (10): 297-314.