Genus Lophops Spinola, 1839

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• Lophops Spinola, M. 1839. Essai sur les Fulgorelles, sous-tribu de la tribu des Cicadaires, ordre des Ryngotes (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 8: 339-454 [387].

  Type species:

   Lophops servillei Spinola, 1839 by monotypy.
• Astorga Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [395].

  Type species:

   Astorga saccharicida Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.
• Brixioides Kirby, W.F. 1891. Catalogue of the described Hemiptera Heteroptera and Homoptera of Ceylon, based on the collection formed (chiefly at Pundaloya) by Mr. E. Ernest Green. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 24: 72-176 pls IV-VI [139].

  Type species:

   Brixioides carinatus Kirby, 1891 by monotypy.
• Cystingocephala Stål, C. 1855. Hemiptera fran Kafferlandet. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 12: 89-100 [95].

  Type species:

   Cystingocephala marginelineata Stål, 1855 by original designation.
• Gozarta Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected in the Indian Archipelago by Mr A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10: 82-193 [116].

  Type species:

   Gozarta zebra Walker, 1870 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stål, C. 1866. Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. Hemiptera Africana 4: 1-276 [201] (synonymy of Cystingocephala)
• Distant, W.L. 1909. Rhynchota Malayana. Part II. Records of the Indian Museum 3: 163-181 [174] (synonymy of Gozarta)
• Melichar, L. 1915. Monographie der Lophopinen. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 13: 337-385 [339] (synonymy of Brixioides and Astorga)

Introduction

This genus is broadly distributed in the Oriental region and has also radiated in Africa (Soulier-Perkins 1998). The single species which occurs in coastal Queensland and the Northern Territory is also present in New Guinea.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Darwin Coastal (DAC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

The two genera of Lophopidae found in Australia are very different from each other. Magia Distant includes two species with elongate clear wings bearing a dark "eyespot" near the apex and both species are greater than 1cm in length. The only Australian species of Lophops is less than 1 cm in length, has brown wings with oblique dark brown striping and is generally arcuate in outline when viewed from the side. The key provided by Soulier-Perkins (1998) separates these two genera at the first couplet with the apical spines of the first tarsal segment grouped together to form a triangular patch in Magia but with the apical spines of the first tarsal segment of Lophops separated by a pag of microsetae.

ID Keys

Soulier-Perkins 1998: 616

Diagnosis References

Soulier-Perkins, A. 1998. The Lophopidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha): Description of three new genera and key to the genera of the family. European Journal of Entomology 95: 599–618 [616]

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