Genus Carystoterpa Lallemand, 1936

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• Carystoterpa Lallemand, V. 1936. Description de trois genres et de deux espèces nouvelles de Homoptera de l'Insulinde et de l'Océanie. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstage von Professor Dr Embrik Strand. Riga, Parka Iela 8 : Spiestuve Latvija Vol. 1 264-266 pp. [264].

  Type species:

   Aphrophora trimaculata Butler by original designation.

Introduction

The genus Carystoterpa is well represented in the New Zealand subregion with 12 species spread over both the North and South Islands as well as on offshore islands such as the Kermadecs. One species is endemic to Norfolk Island and it is this species that gives the genus an Australian representation. There is also a single species in New Caledonia.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Diagnosis

Not dorsoventrally flattened. Crown scarcely declivous; face inflated; apex of head closer to plane of dorsum than that of venter. Head as wide as pronotum; crown shorter than pronotum at midline, its apex bluntly pointed; antennal ledges carinate; beak reaching trochanter of middle legs. Legs similar, fore femur 1.25x as long as hind femur; hind tibial pecten with 12-14 black tipped spines; hind basitarsal pecten with 6 or 7 spines, that of 2nd tarsomere with 8-11 spines. Tegmen as in Basilioterpa, but usually narrower, 2.5-3.0x as long as broad; anteapical cells similar in width. Ovipositor distinctly bent near midlength, lanceolate, bluntly pointed at tip; dorsal margin with fine teeth. Male pygofer low, narrow; subgenital plates large, spoon-shaped; styles slender with an upturned sharp tip; aedeagal theca directed cephalad from strongly curved base, apically large, longitudinally folded; membranous underside with invaginated vesica bearing indefinite circular plates; anal tube with basal segment as long as distal segments. (Hamilton & Morales 1992)

Diagnosis References

Hamilton, K.G.A. & Morales, C.F. 1992. Cercopidae (Insecta: Homoptera). Fauna of New Zealand 25: 1-35 [13]

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