Aphaeninae Blanchard, 1847

Subfamily Aphaeninae Blanchard, 1847

Morphological characters (shape of pro- and mesonotum, carinae of head, tegmina and wing venation) and especially recent molecular data ( Urban & Cryan 2009) lead to the conclusion that Belbina should be transferred to Aphaeninae . The genus is close to the African genera Anecphora Karsch, 1890 and Rhicnophloea Gerstaecker, 1895 (the latter mentioned as ‘undet. Fulgoridae’ in Urban & Cryan 2009: fig. 3) and to the Oriental genera Penthicodes Blanchard, 1845 and Kalidasa Kirkaldy, 1900 . The colour pattern in Belbina is very similar to that found in Penthicodes , species of Belbina looking somewhat like “ Penthicodes with erected cephalic process” (see also Constant 2010 for illustrations of species of Penthicodes ).