Tribe Achilini Fennah, 1950

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• Achilini Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [38].

Introduction

The Australian Achilini Fennah 1950, include our most beautiful achilids. Achilus flammeus, the red fungus bug, is the best known although much of its biology is still to be revealed. The nymphs, which are drab brown like those of most Achilidae, live under logs and in leaf litter and, apparently, feed on fungal hyphae. Four colourful species of the genus Aneipo Kirkaldy were recognised by Lambkin (1978). Emeljanov (2005) described (in Russian) five additional genera in the Australian fauna including a number of green forms.

Diagnosis

Vertex not, or scarcely two thirds width of pronotum, pronotum comparatively large, disk elevated, lateral marginal carinae variable, sometimes obsolete, never enclosing a fovea nor comprising two complete carinae which both lie straight and parallel between each eye and tegula. Tegmina large, shallowly tectiform, venation regular throughout, apical branches numerous, Sc and R united in a common stalk basally, no callus developed in M. (Fennah 1950)

Most of the Australian Achilini are characterised by the presence of only one spine on the tibia and this spine being placed just beyond the midlength of the tibia. However, a few species have three (or four) hind tibial spines which is more than is found in Plectoderini and fewer than in Rhotalini. The width of the pronotum relative to the width of the head across the eyes is also fairly distinctive. (Fletcher 2004)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2004). Illustrated key to the tribes of the family Achilidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/achilidae/achilid00.htm

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [38]

General References

Emeljanov, A.F. 2005. New genera and species of the Family Achilidae (Homoptera). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 84 1: 10-45

Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [38]

Lambkin, K.J. 1978. The Australian achiline genera Aneipo Kirkaldy and Bunduica Jacobi (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Achilidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 17(1): 25-40

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