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Habitus, dorsal view on Arawa Knight, 1975: Arawa pulchra, male, dorsally (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Arawa Knight, 1975: Arawa pulchra, male, dorsally (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Arawa Knight, 1975 n. sp. 30-83: (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Arawa Knight, 1975: Arawa pulchra, female, laterally (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Arawa Knight, 1975 n. sp. 30-83: (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view on Arawa Knight, 1975: Arawa pulchra, pygofer, laterally (INHS). (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view on Arawa Knight, 1975 n. sp. 30-83: (Observation).
Pygofer, dorsal view on Arawa Knight, 1975: Arawa pulchra, pygofer, dorsally (INHS). (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Arawa Knight, 1975: Arawa pulchra, subgenital plates and valve, ventrally (INHS). (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Arawa Knight, 1975 n. sp. 30-83: (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Arawa Knight, 1975 n. sp. 30-83: (Observation).
Stylus on Arawa Knight, 1975: Arawa pulchra, stylus, ventrally (INHS). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Arawa Knight, 1975: Arawa pulchra, aedeagus, laterally (INHS). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Arawa Knight, 1975 n. sp. 30-83: (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Arawa Knight, 1975: Arawa pulchra, aedeagus, caudally (INHS). (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Arawa Knight, 1975 n. sp. 30-83: (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Arawa Knight, 1975 n. sp. 30-83: (Observation).
Connective on Arawa Knight, 1975: Arawa pulchra, connective, stylus, and aedeagus, ventrally (INHS). (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Arawa Knight, 1975a: 176.

    type species by original designation Arawa variegata Knight, 1975

  • Arawa Knight, 1975 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 41.
  • Arawa Knight, 1975 (classified as Limotettixaria Baker, 1915) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 16.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Knight, W.J. (1975a) Deltocephalinae of New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2(2), 169–208.
  • Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 45, 1–211. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.45
  • Zahniser, J.N., Dietrich, C.H., Cao, Y.-H., Dmitriev, D.A. & Pinedo-Escatel, J.A. (2026) New tribal placements, reinstatements and synonymies in the leafhopper subfamily Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 1035, 1–51. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1035.3171

Type

type species by original designation of Arawa Knight, 1975

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Arawa, one of the canoes which brought the ancestors of the Maori to New Zealand

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species801321