Genus Desudaboides Musgrave, 1927

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Regional Maps

• Desudaboides Musgrave, A. 1927. Contributions to the knowledge of Australian Hemiptera. No 1. Records of the Australian Museum 16(1): 47-49 [47].

  Type species:

   Desudaboides fuscomaculata Musgrave, 1927 by original designation.

Introduction

This genus was monotypic until Constant (2010) added four new species from Queensland, NE New South Wales and the Northern Territory. The genus is endemic to Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Head, including eyes, as broad as pronotum, anterior margin convex, the margins strongly ridged; disk glabrous; face broader than long, longer than clypeus, its base convex and extending well in front of eyes, the lateral margins not parallel, sinuate and slightly widened at the base, medially tricarinate, carinations wider anteriorly than posteriorly; clypeus broader than long; rostrum extending as far as hind coxae. Mesonotum tricarinate and medially a little longer than the head and pronotum together; posterior tibiae with three spines. Tegmina more than three times as long as broad, the apices pointed; wings broader and shorter than tegmina (Musgrave 1927).

The genus is characterized by the following combination of characters: (1) head as broad as pronotum; (2) frons broader than long and with lateral margins sinuate, longer than the clypeus; (3) clypeus broader than long; (4) vertex excavate; (5) mesonotum tricarinate; (6) tegmina at least three times longer than broad, roundly pointed apically; (7) clavus open with vein A1+A2 short and ending in sutural margin; (8) hind wings shorter and broader than tegmina (Constant 2010).

Diagnosis References

Constant, J. 2010. Review of the Australian genus Desudaboides Musgrave with descriptions of four new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae). Zootaxa (2351): 39–48 [40]

Musgrave, A. 1927. Contributions to the knowledge of Australian Hemiptera. No 1. Records of the Australian Museum 16(1): 47-49 [47]

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