genus

Tsingya Hoch & Bourgoin, 2014

Tsingya Hoch & Bourgoin, 2014 in Hoch, Bourgoin, Stelbrink & Wessel, 2014a: 922.
type species by original designation Tsingya clarkei Hoch & Wessel, 2014
Tsingya Hoch & Bourgoin, 2014 (classified as Meenoplidae Fieber, 1872) in Deng, Stroiński, Szwedo, Ghanavi, Yapar, Franco, Prus-Frankowska, Michalik, Wahlberg & Łukasik, 2024: 509.

Tsingya clarkei Hoch & Wessel, 2014 type species by original designation of Tsingya Hoch & Bourgoin, 2014

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

from Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park (Madagascar), characterized by its acutely erroded, sharp-bladed "tsingy" limestone pinnacle karst

Deng, J.-C., Stroiński, A., Szwedo, J., Ghanavi, H.R., Yapar, E., Franco, D.C., Prus-Frankowska, M., Michalik, A., Wahlberg, N. & Łukasik, P. (2024) Phylogenomic insights into the relationship and the evolutionary history of planthoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). Systematic Entomology, 50, 495–518. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12666
Hoch, H., Bourgoin, T., Stelbrink, B. & Wessel, A. (2014a) Small giants from Madagascan caves: autapomorphic giantism in the new cave-dwelling planthopper Tsingya clarkei gen. nov., sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Meenoplidae). Journal of Natural History, 48(15-16), 919–935.