Genus Cedusa Fowler, 1904

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• Cedusa Fowler, W.W. 1904. Order Rhynchota. Suborder Hemiptera-Homoptera. (Continued). Biologia Centrali-Americana 1: 109-124 [112].

  Type species:

   Cedusa funesta Fowler, 1904 by subsequent designation, see Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [35].

Introduction

The genus Cedusa is primarily a Nearctic and Neotropical genus with a few additional species in Africa. Three species are recorded in Austalia and it is probable that they do not validly belong in this genus.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Vertex very small, scarcely produced before the eyes, which are large and depressed, and emarginate beneath; forehead and clypeus very narrow, about equal in length, with central and strong lateral keels; pronotum very short, with three more or less distinct keels; scutellum convex, feebly tricarinate; tegmina opaque and coriaceous, slightly dilated behind the clavus, with all the veins of the corium united into one vein before the base, and with the medial veins forked much before the inner ulnar vein, the posterior claval vein thick, not continued to the apex, the transverse claval veins joining this vein at about the middle of the clavus; wings with one transverse vein; posterior tibiae not spined. (Fowler 1904, accessed via http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/bca/navigation/bca_18_01_00/bca_18_01_00display.cfm)

Diagnosis References

Fowler, W.W. 1904. Order Rhynchota. Suborder Hemiptera-Homoptera. (Continued). Biologia Centrali-Americana 1: 109-124 [112]

Misidentifications

— as Lamenia Stål, 1859, Uhler, P.R. 1884. Order VI. — Hemiptera. Standard Natural History 2: 204–296 [233].
— as Herpis Stål, 1862, Muir, F. 1918. Notes on the Derbidae in the British Museum collection. II. Derbinae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 54: 228-243 [232]

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