Benna kanoi ( Matsumura 1938 ) Matsumura, 1938

Tsaur, Shun-Chern, 2009, The rediscovery of the holotype of Kotonisia kanoi Matsumura, 1938 with notes on Matsumura's type specimens of Fulgoroidea (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha), Zootaxa 2315, pp. 66-68 : 67

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.275420
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6216328
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D387E6-FFF2-5B10-FF44-3D94F678F97F
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Benna kanoi ( Matsumura 1938 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Benna kanoi ( Matsumura 1938) View in CoL n. comb.

Kotonisia kanoi Matsumura 1938 , 152

Bennaria formosana Nast 1950: 179 . n. syn. Benna formosana (Nast) View in CoL , Tsaur 1988, 76

Length of body (including tegmen): Male: 8.96mm Length of tegmen: Male: 7.42mm

Material examined: Male (not female as Matsumura stated in the original description) Taiwan, labelled: Formosa (handwritten), Matsumura (printed), Koto (in Japanese, handwritten on reverse), Kotonisia kanoi M. (handwritten), a red label attached above (dissected, examined by Tsaur).Distribution: Taiwan (Orchid Island).

Remarks: The fuscous spots at the end of clavus and at the branching of Cu1, the numbers and orientation of the spinose processes on aedeagus all further match Kotonisia kanoi to Benna formosana (Nast) . Kotonisia kanoi is here synonymized with Benna formosana as the new combination Benna kanoi (Matsumura) .