Genus Stenogiffardia Evans, 1977

Stenogiffardia parvula (Kirkaldy), type species of Stenogiffardia Evans.

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Stenogiffardia Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [116].

  Type species:

   Stenogiffardia elongata Evans, 1977 by original designation.
• Pratura Theron, J.G. 1982. Grassland leafhoppers (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) from Natal, South Africa with descriptions of new genera and species. Phytophylactica 14: 17–30 [21].

  Type species:

   Pratura graminea Theron, 1982 by original designation.
• Doraturella Emeljanov, A.F. 2002. A new genus and a new species of the tribe Doraturini (Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae) from Mali. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 81: 662–665 [663].

  Type species:

   Doraturella spica Emeljanov, 2002 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Zahniser, J.N. 2008. Seven new species and new distributions of Old World Chiasmini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), with a redescription, key to genera, and species checklist for the tribe. Zootaxa 1808: 1–32 [6] (synonymy of Doraturella with Pratura)
• Zahniser, J.N. 2012. New generic synonymies and combinations in Chiasmini (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). International Journal of Tropical Insect Science 32(3): 173–176 [173] (synonymy of Pratura)

Introduction

The only Australian species in this genus is distinctive in the narrow prolongation of the head. It is known in a brachypterous and a macropterous form from widely scattered locations in eastern and western Australia. Zahniser (2012) transferred two South African and one Sri Lankan species into the genus as well.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

The head is roundly and narrowly produced and may be upwardly curved apically and ventrally carinate. On the face, the wide maxillary plates are evenly rounded externally. The lateral sutures of the frontoclypeus diverge posteriorly and the antennal ledges are obscure. The antennae do not extend as far as the sides of the head. The ocelli are on the sides of the head adjacent to the lateral frontal sutures and close to the eyes. The pronotum, laterally, widely separates the eyes from the bases of the tegmina. The tegmina may be fully developed or reduced to small pads. In forms with fully developed tegmina M1+2 proximally of its junction with Rs is unusually long and the appendix continues around the apex of the tegmen to the costal margin. The hind tibiae are strongly spinose (Evans 1977).

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [116]

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