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Limentinus

Limentinus is a genus of African leafhoppers in the subfamily Coelidiinae and tribe Coelidiini, erected by William Lucas Distant in 1917.

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Limentinus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadellidae
Tribe: Coelidiini
Genus: Limentinus
Distant, 1917

Limentinus is a genus of African leafhoppers in the subfamily Coelidiinae and tribe Coelidiini, erected by William Lucas Distant in 1917.1

Species

The World Auchenorrhyncha Database2 includes:

  1. Limentinus aldabranus Distant, 1917
  2. Limentinus bracchius Nielson, 1991
  3. Limentinus cambouei (Signoret, 1886)
  4. Limentinus declinatus Wang, Dietrich & Zhang, 2018
  5. Limentinus nielsoni Gnezdilov, 2021
  6. Limentinus nigrifacies Gnezdilov, 2021
  7. Limentinus oryx Gnezdilov, 2021
  8. Limentinus sagittus Nielson, 1991
  9. Limentinus varius Nielson, 1991
References

References

  1. Distant WL (1917) Rhynchota. Part II: Suborder Homoptera. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, M. A. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd Series, Zoology, 17, 273–322.
  2. World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Limentinus Distant, 1917 (retrieved 20 December 2025)
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