Genus Cotylana Fennah, 1954

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• Cotylana Fennah, R.G 1954. The higher classification of the family Issidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 105: 455-474 [463].

  Type species:

   Lollius acutipennis Kirkaldy, 1906 by original designation.

Introduction

An endemic Australian genus with two species in coastal Queensland. In external appearance, the species look superficially like Acanaloniidae or small Flatidae but the structures of the genitaila place them in Tongini and hence in Nogodinidae.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Vertex quadrate, nearly square, anterior margin transverse with an indication of a small triangular projection at middle, lateral margins elevated but not foliate, frons longer than broad (1.6 : 1), lateral margins gradually diverging to below level of antennae then incurved, disc concave, strongly tricarinate with lateral carinae meeting acutely in middle line basally a very short distance before anterior margin of vertex, frontoclypeal suture impressed, rostrum just attaining post-trochanters, apical joint slightly shorter than subapical, ocellar scars present, post-tibiae laterally bispinose, apically 8-spined, basal metatarsal joint ten-spined. Tegmina not twice as long as broad, costal margin convex, deeply rounding into apical margin, sutural angle rectangulate or acute, clavus not reaching as far as apical margin. Wings with R simple for most of length, M and Cu1 forked at middle, all these veins forked abruptly and subreticulately very close to apical margin, forming an irregular subapical line of veins and with about 12 branchlets reaching margin (Fennah 1954).

ID Keys

Fennah 1954: 459–461

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G 1954. The higher classification of the family Issidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 105: 455-474 [463]

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