Genus Phenelia Kirkaldy, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phenelia Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [421].

  Type species:

   Phenelia elidipteroides Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

Introduction

Kirkaldy (1907) split the genus into two subgenera, one with a single Australian species and the other, Nephelia, with two species in Fiji. Fennah (1950) recognised Nephelia as a valid genus, leaving Phenelia as a monotypic Australian genus.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Head with eyes a little narrower than pronotum. Vertex not or scarcely declivous, broader across base than long in middle line (1.3:1), produced before eyes for about a third of their length, median carina percurrent, prominent, disk slightly depressed, anterior margin carinate, acutely convex, forming an angle of about 70º at apex, anterior margin of head shallowly convex or subtruncate, a distinct triangular areolet at each latero-apical angle of head, lateral margins carinate, diverging basad, posterior margin broadly concave; frons slightly convex in profile, longer in middle line than broad, widest part twice as wide as base, basal margin slightly concave, median carina percurrent, lateral margins carinate, very slightly foliate distally, straight or slightly convex to below level of antennae, thence moderately incurved to suture; clypeus three-quarters of length of frons, medially and laterally carinate, antennae subglobose, not sunk in a depression, ocelli scarcely separated from eyes, eyes slightly overlapping pronotum. Pronotum short, shorter behind eyes than in middle line, anterior margin of disk convex-truncate, posterior margin angulately excavate (about 110º), median carina distinct, lateral carinae straight or slightly sinuate, each 1.5 times as long as median carina, attaining hind margin, pronotum laterad of disk markedly inclined anteroventrally, a weak carina at lateral margin between eye and tegula, ventral margin of lateral pronotal lobes slightly oblique; mesonotum longer than vertex and pronotum combined, tricarinate, pro-tibiae subequal to pro-femora with trochanters, post-tibiae unarmed or with a minute single spine basad of middle. Tegmina about three times as long as broad, not granulate, costal margin slightly convex, sutural margin forming a re-entrant angle of about 155º at apex of clavus, Sc+R fork slightly distad of or about level with Cu1 fork, both nearly level with union of claval veins, M forked at level of node, eight areoles around apical margin distad of stigmal cell, three areoles markedly longer than broad, clavus terminating distad of middle of tegmen. (Fennah 1950)

ID Keys

Fennah 1950: 47

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [139]

General References

Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [140]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [117]

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