Genus Aufidus Stål, 1863

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• Aufidus Stål, C. 1863. Hemipterorum exoticorum generum et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptiones. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 1: 571-603 [594].

  Type species (included species):

   Aufidus trifasciatus Stål, 1863 (type species by monotypy)
• Notoscarta Breddin, G. 1902. Neue malayische Homopteren aus der Familie Cercopidae. Societas Entomologica. Stuttgart 17: 58-59 [58] [junior subjective synonym of Aufidus Stål, 1863].

  Type species:

   Notoscarta croceonigra Distant, 1908 by original designation.
• Aufidellus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [381] [junior subjective synonym of Aufidus Stål, 1863].

  Type species:

   Aufidellus australensis Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [97] (synonymy of Aufidellus)
• Jacobi, A. 1921. Kritische Bermerkungen über die Cercopidae. (Rhynchota Homoptera). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 87: 1-65 [32] (Synonymy of Notoscarta)

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Caput thorace angustius, fronte convexa. Ocelli inter se valde approximati. Thorax sexangularis. Scutellum triangulare, aequilaterura. Tegmina venis distinctissimis, longitudinalibus apicem versus serie unica venularum transversarum conjunctis, prope apicem ad costam venulis transversis distinctissimis instructa. Tibiae anteriores femoribus nonnihil longiores, posticae pone medium unispinosae; articulo primo tarsorum posticorum apicalibus
duobus ad unum breviore (Stål 1863).

Fragile, delicate insects. The labium terminates in line with the hind margin of the middle coxae. The hind margin of the face of the head is arched and the fronto-clypeus is swollen and slightly flattened medially and the eyes are widely separated from the fronto-clypeus. The scutellum is narrower than the crown of the head between the eyes. The tegmen are narrow and proximally membranous, though distally coriaceous. The hind tibiae have a single spur (Evans 1966).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2001) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Cercopidae: Cercopinae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/cercopid/cercopid/cerc00.htm [accessed: 16.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 [311]

Stål, C. 1863. Hemipterorum exoticorum generum et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptiones. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 1: 571-603 [594]

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