Hovana Distant 1905

GENUS HOVANA DISTANT, 1905 Hovana Distant, 1905: 279. Type species: Hemidictya distanti Brancsik, 1893. By monotypy. Diagnosis: Lateral margin of eyes not salient relative to the lateral margins of head; lateral angle of pronotal collar truncate; pronotal lobes flat; scutellum triangular; forewings covering the whole abdomen and pleurae in lateral view, anterior margins touching each other ventrally to the abdomen; forewings with veins C and R +Sc apart from each other; apical area of forewings reticulated; marginal area of forewings absent; expansion of vein C (shelf-like) in forewings absent; uncus present; upper lobe and dorsal beak of pygofer present.Published as part of Ruschel, Tatiana Petersen & Campos, Luiz Alexandre, 2019, Phylogeny and biogeography of the leaf-winged cicadas (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae), pp. 1150-1187 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185 (4) on page 1182, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly087, http://zenodo.org/record/822592