Genus Andes Stål, 1866

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• Andes Stål, C. 1866. Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. Hemiptera Africana 4: 1-276 [166].

  Type species:

   Andes undulatus Stål, 1871 by subsequent designation, see Stål, C. 1870. Hemiptera insularum Philippinarum. Bidrag till Philippinska oarnes Hemipter-fauna. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 27: 607-776 [747].

  Secondary source:

   Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [35] (recognised Leirioessa as a genus distinct from Andes); Holzinger, W.E., Emeljanov, A.F. & Kammerlander, I. 2002. The family Cixiidae Spinola 1839 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) — a review. Denisia 4(176): 113-138 [124] (confirmed synonymy of Leirioessa with Andes).
• Leirioessa Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [112].

  Type species:

   Leirioessa tortricomorpha Kirkaldy, 1907 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Muir, F. 1925. The genus Andes Stål (Cixiidae, Homoptera). Philippine Journal of Science 27(2): 201-226 [201] (synonymy of Leirioessa with Andes)

Introduction

The genus Andes was described by Stål in 1866, however he did not describe a species within this genus until 1870.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex brown with two longitudinal white stripes; frons brown, lateral carinae paler, sometimes with brown dots; body brown; forewings hyaline, colourless, with two brown transverse bands and scattered brown marks; median ocellus often reddish. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 3.8-6.6 mm. Head: Vertex with u- or v-shaped basal emargination; lateral carinae strongly elevated; median carina absent; apical transverse carina well developed; subapical transverse carina well or weakly developed. Maximum width of frons more than 2 x apical width, steadily broadening; position of maximum width distinctly dorsad of centre of frontoclypeal suture; lateral carinae strongly elevated; frontoclypeal suture slightly semicircular bent upwards, median part not reaching lower margin of antennal scape; median ocellus present. Median and lateral carinae of postclypeus well developed; median carina of anteclypeus well developed; lateral carinae absent. Thorax: Pronotum with hind margin rectangular to slightly obtusely angled. Mesonotum with 3 well developed carinae. Forewing in resting position steeply tectiform, apices of wings touching; costal margin slightly outwardly convex basally; tubercles present along veins; Sc+R+M arising separately from a common point on the basal cell or forming a minute common stem (less than 3 x diameter of tubercle); position of r-m at same level as (rarely slightly basad of) fork MA+MP; icu distinctly distad of apex of clavus; RP apically trifid; MA apically trifid; MP apically bifid; fork of Pcu+A1 central within clavus (rarely basad or distad of centre of clavus); 10 apical cells. Fore leg: coxa with outer margin straight, subparallel with inner margin, not produced. Hind leg: tibia with 6 apical teeth forming uninterrupted row of spines (rarely small gap present, dividing spines in two groups of three teeth); tarsomeres without platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 1-4 very fine setae underneath row of apical teeth.

The following attribute distinguishes the Australian Andes from all other Australian cixiid genera, Sc+R+M arising separately from a common point on the basal cell or forming a minute common stem (less than 3 x diameter of a tubercle).
(Löcker et al. 2007)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Holzinger, W.E. & Gurr, G.M. 2007. Revision of the Australian Andini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with a description of five new species. Zootaxa 1475: 43-59 [45]

General References

Stål, C. 1866. Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. Hemiptera Africana 4: 1-276 [166]

Stål, C. 1870. Hemiptera insularum Philippinarum.-Bidrag till Philippinska öarnes Hemipter-fauna. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 27: 607-776, pls 7-9 [747]

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