Genus Alocebes Evans, 1966

Museums

Regional Maps

• Alocebes Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [285].

  Type species:

   Alocebes dixoni Evans, 1966 by original designation.

 

Introduction

This is an endemic monotypic genus found in southern Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Diagnosis

Sturdy brown insects with vitreous tegmina. The pronotum, which is rugose, has raised reticulations on the lateral processes which are short, broad, three-sided and slightly dorsally directed. Viewed dorsally, their anterior margins lie posteriorly to the central part of the pronotum and they extend laterally only slightly beyond the humeral angles. The median pronotal ridge is well-defined and carinate between the lateral arms and the scutellum. The posterior process, anteriorly, is approximately oval in outline and slightly curved downwards posteriorly. It extends apically almost as far as the apices of the folded tegmina. M and Cu1 are basally distinct and there is a wide crossvein, m-cu1, which is closer to the fork of M than to the bases of the two veins (Evans 1966).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. and Day M. F. (2005) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Family Membracidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Membracidae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/membracid/membrac00.htm [accessed: 4.iv.2012]

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [285]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)