Triknightia Shcherbakov, 2021

Shcherbakov, D. E., 2021, New Curvicubitidae and Paraknightiidae (Homoptera: Cicadomorpha) from the Triassic of Central Asia, Russian Entomological Journal 30 (2), pp. 129-134 : 132

Triknightia Shcherbakov , gen.n.

TYPE SPECIES. Triknightia mira sp.n .

DIAGNOSIS. Strongly flattened, pronotal paranota and anterior part of head broadly foliaceous, eyes remote from anterior head margin. Head and mouthparts homopterous: rostrum adpressed to body venter, clypeus and lora situated posterior to eyes. Tegmina transformed into hemielytra: their distal parts (membrane) broadly overlapping in repose, wide, membranous, smooth, veinless, sharply separated from sclerotized, veined, punctate proximal parts (corium). Oblique costal fracture inserted between faint anterior branches of pectinate R distal to claval apex. More than two r-m crossveins.

COMPOSITION. Type species.

COMPARISON. In hypertrophied paranota and overlapping membranized posterodistal parts of tegmina, similar to Paraknightia , but in the latter tegmina are tapered beyond claval apex, their overlapping parts are narrow and not clearly separated, the transverse costal fracture is situated near the apex of basal cell before R branches, and there are two r-m crossveins.

ETYMOLOGY. From Triassic and Paraknightia ; gender feminine.