Genus Busoniomimus Maldonado Capriles, 1977

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• Busoniomimus Maldonado Capriles, J. 1977. Studies on idiocerine leafhoppers XV. Busonia Distant and an allied new genus from the Oriental region (Cicadellidae : Idiocerinae). Pacific Insects 17: 491-501 [491].

  Type species:

   Idiocerus minor Bierman, 1908 by original designation.

Introduction

This Oriental genus has two species in North Queensland although specimens in ASCU and NTDPI identified as Busoniomimus sp., and probably representing an undescribed third species, are from the Arnhem Coast of the Northern Territory. They were swept from Buchanania obovata Engl. (Anacardiaceae).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

In the male genitalia, Busoniomimus is similar to Idioscopus Baker, Pedioscopus Kirkaldy, Amritodus Anufriev and Hatralixia Webb in having segment X fused to the pygophore and the pygophore with a dorsolateral fracture, and all species except B. annulatus Webb from Queensland, have posterior pygophore processes as in Amritodus and Pedioscopus. Busoniomimus differs from Idioscopus, Pedioscopus and Amritodus by having the pygophore with a ventroposterior triangulate lobe on each side, the stem of the connective longer and the aedeagal shaft pustulate, and from Idioscopus, Pedioscopus and Hatralixia by the absence of aedeagal processes (Webb 1983).

ID Keys

Webb 1983: 4–6

Diagnosis References

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [85–86]

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