Confuga persephone: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cixiidae
Genus
Confuga
Species
Confuga persephone
Scientific Name
Confuga persephone

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Confuga

Confuga is a genus of planthoppers in the family Cixiidae. Its only species is Confuga persephone, a troglobitic (cave-dwelling) planthopper that is endemic to New Zealand. It is the only known species of cave-dwelling planthopper in New Zealand.

The species was first described by Ronald Gordon Fennah in 1975, from specimens found in a cave east of Tākaka, in the South Island of New Zealand.

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