Genus Anzora Medler, 1986

Anzora unicolor (Walker), type species of Anzora.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anzora Medler, J.T. 1986. Anzora and Dworena, two new genera erected for Australian species formerly placed in Paratella and Sephena. (Homoptera: Fulgoridae). Insecta Mundi 1(4): 206-208 [206].

  Type species:

   Massila unicolor Walker, 1862 by original designation.

Introduction

This genus was created by Medler (1986) for a single species previously classified in Sephena which is no longer represented in Australia. The species, known as the Grey Planthopper, Anzora unicolor (Walker), is widespread in SE Australia with records from the wet tropics of North Queensland and from Brentwood, a suburb of Perth in Western Australia. It is also adventive in New Zealand.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

In profile, dorsum of head smoothly convex from posterior margin to frontal area, vertex and frontal area merging without a delimiting margin. In dorsal view, anterior margin of head shallowly convex, parallel to curvature of pronotal anterior margin. Frontal area longer than wide, ratio 7 to 5, median carina shallow, extending nearly full length of front. Pronotum twice longer than dorsum of head, indistinctly carinate medially, postocular prominence narrowly raised ridge-like. Mesonotum obscurely tricarinate. Longitudinal veins and crossveins of tegmina weakly outlined on the membrane, submarginal line of crossveins irregular and indistinct; veins R and S united in a short stem distad of the basal stem. Metatibial lateral spines 2, apical spines usually 8, sometimes reduced to 6 or 7 (Medler 1986).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2005). Illustrated key to the genera of the family Flatidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea)
http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/flatid/flat00.htm

Diagnosis References

Medler, J.T. 1986. Anzora and Dworena, two new genera erected for Australian species formerly placed in Paratella and Sephena. (Homoptera: Fulgoridae). Insecta Mundi 1(4): 206-208 [206]

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