Genus Balocerus Freytag & Morrison, 1972

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• Balocerus Freytag, P.H. & Morrison, W.P. 1972. A new genus of leafhoppers from New Guinea. Entomological News 83: 41-44 [41].

  Type species:

   Balocerus rozeni Freytag & Morrison, 1972 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [45].

 

Introduction

This genus has six species in Australia with another in Papua New Guinea, one in Thailand and one in China. It shows affinity with the species-rich Australian genera Rosopaella Webb and Zaletta Metcalf.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• China (People's Republic)
• Thailand

Diagnosis

Crown short, broad, rounded to front. Ocelli on face above ends of frontal sutures, closer to eyes than to each other. Antennae long, male without disc. Forewing with normal venation, large appendix. Hind femur with but two stout apical setae. Male plates large, paddle-shaped. Male aedeagus without a large apodeme, shaft bifurcate. (Freytag & Morrison 1972).

Webb (1983) redescribed the genus and provided keys to species.

 

ID Keys

Webb 1983: 4–6

 

Diagnosis References

Freytag, P.H. & Morrison, W.P. 1972. A new genus of leafhoppers from New Guinea. Entomological News 83: 41-44 [41]

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [45–46]

 

History of changes

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