Genus Thamnophryne Kirkaldy, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thamnophryne Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [61].

  Type species:

   Thamnophryne nysias Kirkaldy, 1907 by monotypy.
• Tasmanotettix Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [12].

  Type species:

   Tasmanotettix maculata Evans, 1938 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [232]

 

Introduction

This monotypic genus is actually represented by numerous undescribed species from most parts of Australia. A comprehensive revision of these undescribed taxa is needed as there seem to be four groups which could be regarded as subgenera, or even genera in their own right. All the species are variously brown in colour and elongate in shape.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Differs from its allies by the minutely but deeply, completely punctured pronotum; otherwise differs from Thamnotettix by the very short lateral margins of the pronotum (Kirkaldy 1907).

The face of the head is evenly convex, the antennal pits are shallow and the antennae long. The internal margins of the eyes lie close to the frontal suture on each side. The ocelli are visible in dorsal aspect and are adjacent to, but not touching, the eyes and the width of the crown is less than the width of each eye. The tegmina are long and narrow and extend considerably beyond the apex of the abdomen (Evans 1966).

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)