Genus Salemina Kirkaldy, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Salemina Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [424].

  Type species:

   Salemina francescophila Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

Introduction

Another unremarkable monotypic genus from far North Queensland which requires redescription based on the type material

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Head with eyes markedly narrower than pronotum. Vertex weakly declivous, broader across base than long in middle line (1.4:1), produced before eyes for about two-fifths of their length, median carina present except at apex, elevated, disk slightly depressed, anterior margin carinate, elevated, forming an angle of 90º at apex, lateral margins carinate, strongly diverging basad, posterior margin angulately excavate (110º); frons slightly convex in profile, longer in middle line than broad (about 1.6:1), lateral margins carinate, gradually divergent to below level of antennae, thence incurved, median carina present throughout; clypeus tricarinate, three-quarters of length of frons; rostrum with subapical joint apparently equal to apical, antennae subglobose, not sunk in a depression, eyes not overlapping pronotum. Pronotum moderately short, as long behind eyes as in middle line, anterior margin of disk truncate-convex, posterior margin broadly angulately excavate, median carina present, lateral carinae of disk straight or slightly convex, each about 1.6 times as long as median carina, attaining hind margin, pronotum laterad of disk not or scarcely inclined anteroventrally; mesonotum longer than vertex and pronotum combined; distinctly tricarinate; post-tibiae with a single spine basad of middle. Tegmina about three times as long as broad, anterior margin slightly convex, commissural margin forming a re-entrant angle of about 160º at apex of clavus, Sc+R fork about level with Cu1 fork, veins prominent, nine apical areoles distad of stigma, short, three in R and M scarcely longer than wide; clavus terminating at middle of tegmen. (Fennah 1950)

The genus is known only from Queensland. Its affinities are uncertain, but would seem to lie with Mahuna Dist., from which it is separated by the proportions of the frons and pronotal disk. The tegminal venation, while not much dissimilar from that of Mahuna, would appear to be closest to that of Hamba perplexa Dist. (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 [108]

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