Genus Calamister Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Calamister Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [402].

  Type species:

   Calamister obscurus Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

 

Introduction

This genus was revised by Löcker (2014) who recognised two species, both endemic to eastern Australia. One is only known from Southeast Queensland and the other from Southeast Queensland to the New South Wales North Coast.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Vertex transverse, disk depressed, not carinate medianly, apically rounded, very slightly produced before the eyes. Frons widening out apically, medianly carinate, no frontal ocellus. Clypeus rather obsoletely carinate laterally. Scutellum tricarinate. Venation as in Carolus. Tibiae not spinose. (Kirkaldy 1906)

The following character state has been observed in Calamister Kirkaldy but not in any other Australian cixiid: In most specimens of Calamister, CuA2 ends well before it reaches the margin of the forewing. In some specimens of C. obscurus it reaches the margin but with slightly reduced thickness. Further studies on a worldwide scale are needed to clarify if this character state is unique within Cixiidae. In case this character is not unique within Cixiidae, Calamister can be distinguished from all other Cixiini by the following combination of characters: median carina of frons unforked; submedian/lateral carinae short, not following contour of eyes; rostrum very short (not reaching hind coxae); icu inserting at CuP very distad of apex of clavus; second hind tarsomere usually with 8 apical teeth and 4 platellae (Löcker 2014).

 

ID Keys

Kirkaldy (1906: 396)

 

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 [402]

 

General References

Löcker, B. 2014. Taxonomic revision of Calamister Kirkaldy, 1906 (Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 3878(1): 89–96

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
27-Oct-2014	CIXIIDAE Spinola, 1839	23-Oct-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
13-Oct-2010		13-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)