Genus Anyllis Kirkaldy, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anyllis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [386].

  Type species:

   Anyllis leiala Kirkaldy, 1906 by subsequent designation, see Lallemand, V. 1912. Homoptera. Fam. Cercopidae. Genera Insectorum 143: 1-167 [83].
• Aphrophorinella Lallemand, V. 1946. Quatrième note sur les Cercopides. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 82: 189-197 [195].

  Type species:

   Aphrophorinella tonnoiri Lallemand, 1946 by original designation.
• Neoaphrophora China, W.E. 1952. A new genus and species of Aphrophorinae (Cercopidae, Hemiptera-Homoptera) from Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12) 5: 789-792 [789].

  Type species:

   Neoaphrophora tiegsi China, 1952 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [317] (Synonymy of Aphrophorinella)
• Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. A review of the Australian aphrophorid spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42(1): 84-93 [86] (Synonymy of Neoaphrophora)

 

Introduction

This endemic Australian genus is represented by five species. Anyllis leiala Kirkaldy is one of the most common species of Australian spittlebugs. It is frequently attracted to lights and can be swept from a wide range of shrubby native plants. The genus was most recently revised by Liang & Wang (2012).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Vic: New England Tablelands (NET)

Diagnosis

Head transverse, shorter than pronotum, longer in centre than against eyes, flat to undulate dorsally, with anterior margin clearly defined and carinate. Tegmina narrow, more strongly so apically, costal margin evenly convex from base to apex. Tegmen venation subreticulate apically. Hind tibia with single spur. Subgenital plates fused to pygofer, apically more or less bilobed. Parameres narrow apically, curved medially and apically bidentate. Aedeagus shaft simple, with apical gonopore extending onto posterior face. (Liang and Fletcher 2003)

Species of Anyllis can be distinguished from members of other aphrophorine genera in the Australian fauna by the following combination of characters: body with dorsum distinctly punctate; vertex and pronotum with median carina; tylus short and transversely long; frons usually strongly compressed laterally, narrow and keel-like medially in males and usually moderately bulbose in females; antennae with flagellar base visible and bearing an apical bulbous sensillum; and the male genitalis structure, especially the basal anal segment in males with a pair of posteriorly directed processes on ventral margin and the subgenital plates reduced and very short and small. (Liang, Fletcher & Jiang 2005)

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2003) Illustrated Key to the genera of the subfamily Aphrophorinae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/cercopid/aphrophor/aphro00.htm [accessed 18.iv.2012]

 

Diagnosis References

Liang, A.P., Fletcher, M.J. & Jiang, G.M. 2005. The endemic Australian spittlebug genus Anyllis Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae) with description of a new species from Tasmania. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 78(4): 301-307 [302]

Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. A review of the Australian aphrophorid spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42(1): 84-93 [86]

 

General References

Liang, A.P. & Wang, R.R. 2012. A revision of the endemic Australian spittlebug genus Anyllis Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae) with descriptions of two new species. Journal of Natural History 46(15–16): 1005–1023

 

History of changes

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