Genus Lipocallia Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Lipocallia Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [440].

  Type species:

   Lipocallia australensis Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

Introduction

The relationship between this genus and Bilbilicallia Jacobi is unclear and it is possible that they are synonyms. Specimens from Barrow Island have been identified in both genera although Lipocallia is only known from one described species which was described from Sydney, New South Wales. As with the four described species of Bilbilicallia, Lipocallia is characterised by an almost spherical appearance and cryptic colouration.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Sydney Basin (SB)

Diagnosis

Allied to Neaethus Stål [a Nearctic genus] but the tegmina are subcoriaceous, lateral carinae of the frons are as well developed as the median, the costal area is reticulate, etc. Vertex transverse, almost linear, truncate apically. Frons quadrangular, perpendicular; lateral margins slightly sinuate, narrowing a little just basal of the clypeus, with 2 lateral curved carinae (forming an oval) and a longitudinal median one, all of equal strength. Pronotum very transverse, slightly arched anteriorly, slightly roundedly emarginate posteriorly, medianly carinate longitudinally. Scutellum nearly 3 times as long as pronotum. Tegmina tectiform, covering body completely. Corium more or less convex, costal area dilated, a little sinuate. Tegmina closely reticulate, more minutely costally, apical margin roundly obliquely truncate (Kirkaldy 1906).

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [440–441]

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