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Habitus, dorsal view on Caranavia Linnavuori, 1959: Caranavia sp., dorsally (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Caranavia Linnavuori, 1959: Caranavia sp., dorsally (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Caranavia Linnavuori, 1959: Caranavia sp., laterally (INHS). (Observation).
Head on Caranavia Linnavuori, 1959: Head, pronotum. (Observation).
Stylus on Caranavia Linnavuori, 1959: Caranavia cruentata, style. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Caranavia Linnavuori, 1959: Caranavia cruentata, aedeagus, laterally. (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Caranavia Linnavuori, 1959: Caranavia cruentata, aedeagus, ventrally. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Caranavia Linnavuori, 1959b: 278.

    type species by original designation Caranavia cruentata Linnavuori, 1959

  • Caranavia Linnavuori, 1959 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 41.
  • Caranavia Linnavuori, 1959 (classified as Platymetopiinae Haupt, 1929) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 26.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Linnavuori, R.E. (1959b) Revision of the Neotropical Deltocephalinae and some related subfamilies (Homoptera). Annales Zoologici Societatis Zoologicae-Botanicae Fennicae 'Vanamo', 20(1), 1–370.
  • 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 Caranavia Linnavuori, 1959

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

from Caranavi (Bolivia) + -ia (noun suffix)

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
Species2002