Genus Chunra Distant, 1908

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Regional Maps

• Chunra Distant, W.L. 1908. Rhynchota. — Vol. IV. Homoptera and Appendix. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 4: 1-501 [193].

  Type species:

   Iassus puncticosta Walker, 1870 by original designation.

Introduction

This genus is distributed in the Afrotropical, Oriental, eastern Palaearctic (Japan) and Australasian regions with a single species, C. australis Webb, described from the wet tropics of North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Vertex very short and broad, with eyes distinctly broader than pronotum; face narrowed between eyes, the ocelli about as near to each other as to eyes and placed a little below middle of eyes, which are obliquely long and narrow and extend along the lateral margins of the pronotum; pronotum twice as long as vertex, the posterior margin concavely sinuate; scutellum very long and broad, longer than pronotum and vertex together, transversely impressed before apical area, which is moderately raised, the apical margin broadly subacute; legs moderately slender, the posterior tibiae thickly spinulose; tegmina with the clavus posteriorly broadened to middle and then angularly narrowed to the claval apex, apical areas four, the upper or postcostal area short and moderately broad; wings ample (Distant 1908).

ID Keys

Webb 1983: 4–6

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1908. Rhynchota. — Vol. IV. Homoptera and Appendix. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 4: 1-501 [193]

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [74–75]

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