Genus Thymbris Kirkaldy, 1907

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• Thymbris Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [49].

  Type species:

   Thymbris inachis Kirkaldy, 1907 by subsequent designation, see Evans, J.W. 1947. A natural classification of leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera) Part 3. Jassidae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 98(6): 105-271 [137].

 

Introduction

Thymbris is an endemic genus of four brown species, often beautifully marked with dark brown and white, which are mainly found in the northern half of the continent although records from southeastern Australia are known for some species.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Allied to Tartessus, but the vertex is convex and although sharp anteriorly, is not channelled as in the latter. Head and eyes wider than the pronotum; ocelli nearly as far from apex of dorsal part of head as from eyes, on the extreme margin of the head just on the dorsal side, but owing to the declivity of the vertex, is not visible when the insect is horizontal. Eyes not touching base of tegmina. Vertex and pronotum striate transversely. Tegmina narrowed posteriorly, without an appendix (Kirkaldy 1907).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2005) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Tribe Thymbrini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Tartessinae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/tartessinae/thym00.htm [accessed: 15.ii.2012]

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [49]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)