Genus Basileocephalus Kirkaldy, 1906

Basileocephalus thaumatonotus Kirkaldy, type species of Basileocephalus Kirkaldy

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• Basileocephalus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [429].

  Type species:

   Basileocephalus thaumatonotus Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.
• Urabunna Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [414].

  Type species:

   Urabunna lineata Distant, 1907 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [166] (synonymy of Urabunna)

Introduction

This genus is known from two species, the original from Kuranda, in the wet tropics of North Queensland and B. pictipennis (Walker) from Morotai Island, Maluku, Indonesia the latter was transferred into the genus by Muir (1918). The genus was defined by Kirkaldy (1906) on the basis of the pronotum which is foliate laterally and extended forward to almost enclose the antennae.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Distinguished by the remarkable form of the pronotum. Head produced distinctly in front of eyes, vertex indistinctly separated from frons, the former elongate triangular, disk concave, the anterior converging lateral margins blunt, strewn thickly with sensory organs. Frons narrow, but the acute lateral margins not nearly contiguous. Clypeus rather longer than the head, strongly tricarinate. Antennae articulated remote from the genae, short, somewhat globose. Pronotum transverse, much wider than the head, medianly carinate, laterally foliaceous, recurved, practically enclosing the antennae except from in front. Scutellum polished, obsolescently carinate. Tegmina elongate, narrow. Tegulae subfoliaceous (Kirkaldy 1906).

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [429]

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