Vatiga

Vatiga is a genus of lace bugs in the family Tingidae. There are about 11 described species in Vatiga.

Vatiga
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Tingidae
Subfamily:	Tinginae
Tribe:	Tingini
Genus:	Vatiga Drake & Hambleton, 1946

Species

These 11 species belong to the genus Vatiga:

• Vatiga cassiae (Drake & Hambleton, 1934)
• Vatiga celebrata (Drake, 1928)
• Vatiga illudens (Drake, 1922) (cassava lace bug)
• Vatiga lonchocarpa (Drake & Hambleton, 1944)
• Vatiga longula (Drake, 1922)
• Vatiga manihotae (Drake, 1922)
• Vatiga pauxilla (Drake & Poor, 1939)
• Vatiga sesoris (Drake & Hambleton, 1942)
• Vatiga variana Drake & Hambleton, 1946
• Vatiga varianta (Drake, 1930)
• Vatiga viscosana Drake & Hambleton, 1946

Further reading

• Froeschner, Richard C. (1993). "The Neotropical lace bugs of the genus Vatiga (Heteroptera: Tingidae), pests of cassava: new synonymies and key to species". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 95 (3): 457–462. ISSN 0013-8797.
• Drake, Carl J.; Ruhoff, Florence A. (1965). "Lacebugs of the World: A Catalog (Hemiptera: Tingidae)". United States National Museum Bulletin (243): 1–634. doi:10.5479/si.03629236.243.1. hdl:10088/10084.
• Froeschner, Richard C. (1995). "Review of the New World lace bug genera Acanthocheila Stål and Carvalhotingis new genus (Heteroptera: Tingidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 97 (2): 331–339. ISSN 0013-8797.
• Péricart, J.; Golub, V. B. (1996). Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian (eds.). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 2: Cimicomorpha I. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-15-3.
• Schuh, Randall T.; Weirauch, Christiane; Wheeler, Ward C. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total-evidence analysis". Systematic Entomology. 34 (1): 15–48. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.498.8756. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00436.x.