Genus

Lawana Distant, 1906

Descendants and synonyms

Phyma Melichar, 1902: 199.
type species by subsequent designation Flata candida Fabricius, 1798 in Melichar, 1902a: 43
Phyma Melichar, 1902 (homonym of Phyma Gistel, 1848)

Daksha Distant, 1906 (subjective synonym of Lawana Distant, 1906) in Medler, 1996b: 39.
Lawana Distant, 1906 (classified as Lawanina Melichar, 1923) in Ai, Bourgoin, Bu & Zhang, 2026: 6.

Melichar, L. (1902) Monographie der Acanaloniiden und Flatiden (Homoptera). Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, Wien, 16(3), 178–258. [1901]
Melichar, L. (1902a) Monographie der Acanolaniiden und Flatiden (Homoptera) (Fortsetzung). Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, Wien, 17(1), 1–253 + pls. 1–9.

Medler, J.T. (1996b) Flatidae of Borneo, with descriptions of new genera and species (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Oriental Insects, 30, 11–96.
Ai, D.-Q., Bourgoin, T., Bu, W. & Zhang, Y.-L. (2026) Toward a new phylogeny-based classification of Flatidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha): a diversification shaped by angiosperm expansion. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 216, 1–13. [2025; no zoobank registration] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108508

type species by original designation of Lawana Distant, 1906

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after "Maharadia Lawana", an epic poem of the Maranao people of the Philippines, it has been regarded as an indigenized version of the Ramayana

No descendants observations found