Genus Gaetulia Stål, 1864

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• Gaetulia Stål, C. 1864. Hemiptera mexicana enumeravit speciesque novas descripsit. (Continuatio). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 25: 49-86 [54].

  Type species:

   Gaetulia pudibunda Stål, 1864 by monotypy.

Introduction

This genus is essentially a Central American one with three species in Australia. The placement of three Australian species in an otherwise Neotropical genus is questionable since there is very little connection between these two regions in other fulgoroid families. Gaetulia koebelei Muir may be a junior synonym of Salona panorpaepennis (Guérin-Méneville) and it is therefore possible that all three Australian species may be better placed in Salona Stål.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Caput thorace paullo angustius, ante oculos paullo prominens; vertice basi sat profunde sinuato; fronte oblonga; clypeo medio, nec lateribus carinato. Thorax brevis, angulatus. Scutellum maximum , tricarinatum. Tegmina modice ampla, parce venulosa, venulis discoidalibus irregulariter dispositis; prope apicem adest series venularum transversa, arcuata, minus continua; area costali latiuscula. Alae minus amplae. Pedes graciles; tibiis posticis trispinosis, spina ante medium posita minutissima, obsoleta. Nogodinae affine genus, clypei lateribus haud carinatis vreticeque angusto praesertim differt. (Stål 1864).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2001) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Tropiduchidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/tropid/tropid00.htm

Diagnosis References

Stål, C. 1864. Hemiptera mexicana enumeravit speciesque novas descripsit. (Continuatio). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 25: 49-86 [54]

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