Tribe Cleotychini Emeljanov, 1997

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• Cleotychini Emeljanov, A.F. 1997. A new genus and species of the Dictyopharidae from Australia belonging to a new tribe (Homoptera: Cicadina). Zoosystematica Rossica 6(1/2): 77-82 [77].

  Type genus:

   Cleotyche Emeljanov, 1997.

Introduction

This is one of several groups of brachypterous planthoppers which exhibit convergence of features providing adaptation for living in arid environments.

Diagnosis

Habitus intermediate between orgeriine and calisceline types: fore part of body a little compressed; knees of fore legs directed in usual position more or less upwards in parasagittal plane, as in Caliscelinae. Head with well delimited trigons. Apical joint of rostrum half the length of subapical one. Only one side keel of pronotum present, probably the collateral one. Elytra strongly shortened, without keels. Tegulae absent. Upperside of abdomen without keels. Fore coxae with triangular lobe-like keel. Fore femora and tibiae dilated, foliate. Hind tibiae with two lateral spines only, one genicular and one in distal half of tibia. Apex of tibiae with six spines, two of them in medial group. First and second segments of metatarsus with platellae instead of spines, except large lateral common setaless spines. Arolium with one pair of chetoid sensilla. Claws with three setae. Sternite VIII of male fused with pygofer. Pygofer with broad base, narrowed backwards. Styles without upper teeth but with upper lobe commonly bearing an upper tooth. Endoconnective fused with lower wall of pygofer, largely not connected with base of styles. Lateral lobe of third valvae of ovipositor without appendix; medial lobe of first valvae of ovipositor with two nervures; lateral lobes with bidentate apex. (Emeljanov 1997)

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Emeljanov 2011: 1123–1124

Diagnosis References

Emeljanov, A.F. 1997. A new genus and species of the Dictyopharidae from Australia belonging to a new tribe (Homoptera: Cicadina). Zoosystematica Rossica 6(1/2): 77-82 [77]

Emeljanov, A.F. 2011. Improved tribal delimitation of the subfamily Dictyopharinae and description of new genera and new species (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea, Dictyopharidae). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 91(9): 1122–1145 [Original Russian text in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2011, 90(2): 299–328] [1123–1124]

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