Genus Gelastopsis Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Gelastopsis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [447].

  Type species:

   Gelastopsis insignis Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Constant, J. 2005. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (IV). The Australian genus Gelastopsis Kirkaldy, 1906 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 75: 57-69 [58].
• Elthenus Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [3].

  Type species:

   Yarrana glaucops Schmnidt, 1908 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fennah, R.G. 1964. Three new genera of Eurybrachyidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) from West Africa and Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 33(9-10): 157-162 [160]

Introduction

The genus Gelastopsis Kirkaldy was reviewed by Constant (2005) who recognised three species all of which are almost certainly associated with host plants of the genus Acacia. They show similarity in the structures of the male genitalia to species in the other Australian genera Navorillina Fennah and Dardus Stål which are also associated with plants of the genus Acacia. Constant (2005) hypothesises that the two-tone colouration of the face mimics the face of jumping spiders (family Salticidae).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Nandewar (NAN), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Small sized, greyish brown coloured. Immediately recognised by the frons that is divided into a dorsal, mainly black half and a ventral half brownish with transverse weak ridges. (Constant 2005)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2000). Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Eurybrachidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/eurybrachidae/eurygen00.htm

Diagnosis References

Constant, J. 2005. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (IV). The Australian genus Gelastopsis Kirkaldy, 1906 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 75: 57-69 [58]

General References

Constant, J. 2005. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (IV). The Australian genus Gelastopsis Kirkaldy, 1906 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 75: 57-69 [58]

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