Genus Aufiterna Kirkaldy, 1906
Aufiterna kirkaldyi Jacobi, type species of Aufiterna Kirkaldy.
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Genus Aufiterna Kirkaldy, 1906
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17 April 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Aufiterna Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [382].
Type species:
Aufiterna ptyeloides Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.
Introduction
This monotypic genus is restricted to the wet tropics of Queensland. It is one of three genera of brown froghoppers found in Australia.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Diagnosis
Allied to Aufidus but tegmina more coriaceous and venation different. Pronotum anteriorly with two naked callose spots. Posterior margin emarginate, while it is truncate in Aufidus. In the tegmina there are three discoidals (subapical), four apicals well marked, while there are another five small cells marked off on the costal cell. There is a narrow appendix. (Kirkaldy 1906)
On the face of the head the frontoclypeus is narrow and swollen, somewhat medially flattened with the sides steep. The labium terminates between the middle coxae. The eyes, which are broader than long, lie considerably below the level of the frontoclypeus. On the crown of the head, the distance between the ocelli is less than one third of the distance between each ocellus and the adjacent eye. The eyes overlap the pronotum laterally. The tegmina have numerous costal veinlets and the hind tibiae have a single spur. (Evans 1966)
ID Keys
Fletcher, M.J. (2001) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Cercopidae: Cercopinae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/cercopid/cercopid/cerc00.htm [accessed: 17.iv.2012]
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [312]
Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [382]
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