Genus Bunyella Day, 1999

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• Bunyella Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [656].

  Type species:

   Acanthuchus dromedarius Kirkaldy, 1906 by original designation.

 

Introduction

This genus is based on a single female specimen from Cairns in the wet tropics of north Queensland. The type species is a small squat species with short acute lateral pronotal processes and strongly sinuate median pronotal process (MPP) reaching barely to level with CuA. Day (1999) describes the MPP as saddle-shaped.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Small, squat species. Clypeus broad. Frontal margin arched. Short, saddle-shaped median posterior process of pronotum. Crossveins m–cu1 and m–cu2 absent (Day 1999)

Day (1999) provided a comprehensive description of the genus.

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. and Day M. F. (2005) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Family Membracidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Membracidae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/membracid/membrac00.htm [accessed: 4.iv.2012]

 

Diagnosis References

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [656–658]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)