Genus Coronacella Metcalf, 1950

Museums

Regional Maps

• Coronacella Metcalf, Z.P. 1950. Homoptera from the Caroline Islands. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 20: 59-76 [59].

Introduction

This genus has a single species which is widely distributed across the western Pacific to eastern and southern Oriental regions. It has been recorded in the wet tropics of North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Head broad, nearly as broad as pronotum; crown quadrangular; lateral carinae strongly elevated; median carina forked at apex of head; intermediate carinae forming a small cell; frons elongate, narrrow, lateral margin strongly elevated, median carina fine. Antennae short, terete, first segment longer than broad, about half as long as the second segment. Pronotum short and broad, intermediate carinae somewhat divergent. Mesonotum tricarinate. Hind basitarsi rather stout, about twice as long as the apical segments combined; calcars thin and foliaceous with a row of fine teeth on posterior margin, not as long as the basitarsi. Outer genital chamber very shallow; genital styles small. (Metcalf 1950)

ID Keys

Fennah 1965: 4

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [4]

Metcalf, Z.P. 1950. Homoptera from the Caroline Islands. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 20: 59-76 [59]

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