Family CALISCELIDAE Amyot & Serville, 1843

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• Caloscelides Amyot, C.J.B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insects. Hémiptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Rue Hautefeuille 10 B13 676 pp. [509].

  Secondary source:

   Emeljanov, A.F. 1999. Notes on delimitation of families of the Issidae group with description of a new species of Caliscelidae belonging to a new genus and tribe (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea). Zoosystematica Rossica 8(1): 61-72 [66] (redefined family, recognised two subfamilies).

Introduction

The Caliscelidae have been treated as a subfamily of the Issidae until recently. Emeljanov (1999) has outlined the reasons for regarding the group as a family in its own right and provides references to other work on which this is based. The principal characters are provided by the structures of the female genitalia and ovipositor.

Kirkaldy (1906) originally described two species of Caliscelidae from Australia but these were synonymised by Gnezdilov (2008) as male and female of the same species. Sexual dimorphism is common in Caliscelidae with the sexes sometimes differing in coloration, head morphology and the shape of the abdomen - more evident in brachypterous species. There are, however, a number of undescribed species in Australia representing at least two new genera. Australian caliscelids are usually highly brachypterous with the tegmina barely reaching over the first abdominal segments.

Diagnosis

Brachyptery pronounced, combined with macropterous form, or monomorphic macropterous or moderately brachypterous [strongly brachypterous in known Australian forms]. Coryphe with apical callus transformed into a large areolet fused with coryphe and recognizable by a weak suture; median keel (or suture) of coryphe bifurcates anteriorly and its arms diverge at obtuse angle. Ovipositor rounded, or broad and convex at base but with slightly attentuate and compressed apices of lateral lobes of third valvules which are always edentate. (after Emeljanov 1999)

Note: Anufriev & Emeljanov (1988) proposed a new terminology for the fulgoroid head, including introducing the terms coryphe (for the vertex) and metope (for the frons). See Löcker, et al. (2006: 63) for a brief summary.

ID Keys

https://idtools.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/index.html

Diagnosis References

Anufriev, G.A. & Emeljanov, A.F. 1988. Keys to the Identification of Insects of the Soviet Far East 2: Homoptera and Heteroptera. Leningrad : Nauka 972 pp.

Emeljanov, A.F. 1999. Notes on delimitation of families of the Issidae group with description of a new species of Caliscelidae belonging to a new genus and tribe (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea). Zoosystematica Rossica 8(1): 61-72

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C., Gurr, G.M., Holzinger, W.E. & Löcker, H. 2006. Taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of the Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae). Invertebrate Systematics 20: 59-160 [63]

General References

Emeljanov, A.F. 1999. Notes on delimitation of families of the Issidae group with description of a new species of Caliscelidae belonging to a new genus and tribe (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea). Zoosystematica Rossica 8(1): 61-72

Gnezdilov, V.M. 2008. Revision of the genus Gelastissus Kirkaldy (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Caliscelidae). Zootaxa 1727: 22-28

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [441-442]

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