Kalama

Taxonomy

Kalama Puton, 1876

Campylostira (Kalama) Puton, 1876

Kalama: Péricart, 1982

Type species: Campylostira (Kalama) coquereli Puton

Diagnostic characters

Head long, clypeus surpassing apical half of first antennal segment; cephalic spinescephalic spines:
a spine on the head
present; antennae with setiferoussetiferous:
bearing bristles, as in "setiferous antennae"
spines; bucculaebucculae:
an elevated ridge on either side of the first labial segment
open anteriorly; rostrumrostrum:
a beak or snout, applied especially to the piercing mouth-parts of bugs and elongated snouts of weevils
long, reaching first abdominal segment; ventral side of abdomen without mediolongitudinal groove; pronotumpronotum:
dorsal sclerite of the first thoracic segment
tricarinate; pronotal hoodhood:
term used to describe the modified anterior area of the pronotum, which is sometimes tectiform and sometimes bulbous, with numerous intermediate conditions.
bulbous, not extending over the base of head; paranotumparanotum:
lateral extension of pronotum; may be carinate, explanate, or reflexed
expanded wide, as equal to half of the width of pronotal disc, not oriented subvertically, anterior margin slightly projecting anterad; hemelytrahemelytra:
one of the basally thickened forewings of Hemiptera
with claval areaclaval area:
parallel-sided and sharply pointed anal area of hemelytron
weakly developed, almost entirely covered by posterior margin of pronotumpronotum:
dorsal sclerite of the first thoracic segment
; discoidal areadiscoidal area:
area of the forewing posterior to the subcostal area
level, extending beyond the midlength of hemelytra; hypocostal laminae extending to the apex of abdomen (Froeschner 2001Froeschner 2001:
Froeschner, R. C. 2001. Lace Bug Genera of the World, II: Subfamily Tinginae: Tribes Litadeini and Ypsotingini (Heteroptera: Tingidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 611: 1-27).

Distribution

Afrotropical, Oriental, Palearctic (Froeschner 2001Froeschner 2001:
Froeschner, R. C. 2001. Lace Bug Genera of the World, II: Subfamily Tinginae: Tribes Litadeini and Ypsotingini (Heteroptera: Tingidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 611: 1-27)

Interceptions at US ports of entry 1984 to 2018

Intercepted species	Shipment origin(s)	Inspected host(s)
Kalama tricornis (Schrank)	Israel, Netherlands	Lycorpersicon sp., Rosmarinus officinalis

References

Froeschner 2001Froeschner 2001:
Froeschner, R. C. 2001. Lace Bug Genera of the World, II: Subfamily Tinginae: Tribes Litadeini and Ypsotingini (Heteroptera: Tingidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 611: 1-27