Hamma Buckton, 1905

Loudit, Sandrine Mariela Bayendi, Durante, Antonio & Susini, Antonio, 2014, Membracidae of Gabon: the genus Hamma Buckton, 1905 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) with description of three new species, Zootaxa 3838 (3), pp. 323-346 : 327

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scientific name	Hamma Buckton, 1905
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Hamma Buckton, 1905 View in CoL

Hamma Buckton, 1905 View in CoL ; Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, series 2, IX, 9: 330. Amitrochates Distant, 1916; The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, VIII, 17: 327 (type species Amitrochates grahami Distant, 1916 ); synonymized in Capener 1955: 376.

Type species

Hamma nodosum Buckton, 1905 View in CoL

Geographical range.

The genus Hamma View in CoL is entirely Afrotropical ( Wallace & Deitz 2004).

Diagnosis (mainly based on Buckton 1905 and Capener1968).

Genus of tribus Centrotini Amyot and Serville, 1843; pronotum convex, tuberculate; posterior pronotal process bisinuate, and bi- up to quadrinodate, robust and arching over scutellum; scutellum wider than long, basally a little convex, slightly apically upturned and broadly concavely emarginate. Tegmina with a large pterostigma, and five apical and two discoidal cells.