Genus Chewobrachys Constant, 2008

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• Chewobrachys Constant, J. 2008. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (XIII). The new Australian genus Chewobrachys (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). Zootaxa 1898: 41-54 [43].

  Type species:

   Eurybrachys sanguiflua Walker, 1858 by original designation.

Introduction

This is a small genus with two species associated with trees, but not shrubs, of the genus Acacia in New South Wales and Queensland. The name honours Mr Peter Chew and his children Tony and Sandy, for their contribution to a better knowledge of the life history of several species of Eurybrachidae found around Brisbane, Queensland.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Medium sized (12–16 mm), brown, convex insects. Recognized by the following combination of characters: (1) frons slightly convex, 2 times broader than long, (2) infra-ocular spines on genae absent, (3) tegmina slightly convex, (4) first fork of vein M beyond Sc-R separation, (5) clavus closed, (6) hind wings well developed, brown with base red and white markings apically, (7) abdomen and ventral face bright red, (8) ventral face of first hind tarsomere with obsolete pad of microsetae. Known only from Australia. (Constant 2008)

Diagnosis References

Constant, J. 2008. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (XIII). The new Australian genus Chewobrachys (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). Zootaxa 1898: 41-54 [43]

History of changes