Genus Aflata Melichar, 1902

Aflata stali Melichar, type species of Aflata.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aflata Melichar, L. 1902. Monographie der Acanaloniiden und Flatiden (Homoptera) (Fortsetzung). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien 17: 1-253 [7].

  Type species:

   Aflata stali Melichar, 1902 by monotypy.

Introduction

An endemic, monotypic genus first created for specimens from Adelaide, South Australia. The included species is very distinctive.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB)

Diagnosis

Head short. Frons and vertex separated by transverse carinate margin. Frons flat to slightly convex, with three strong carinae. Vertex flat, medially impressed. Pronotum short with median longitudinal carina continuous with median carina on mesonotum. Tegmen narrow, green with sinuate white marking down centre in only known species. Costal margin convex to apex of costal cell, then concave to apex which forms continuous curve to sutural margin. Sutural margin straight from apex of scutellum to apex. Costal cell wider than costal membrane. Cu simple. One indistinct subapical line near apex. Hind tibia with one spine on external margin (Fletcher 1988).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2005). Illustrated key to the genera of the family Flatidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/flatid/flat00.htm

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 1988. The Australian genera of Flatidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). General and Applied Entomology 20: 9-32 [16]

History of changes