Genus Daymfus Özdikmen & Demir, 2010

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• Strzeleckia Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [718] [junior homonym; of Strzeleckia Cribb & Spratt 1991 (Digenea)].

  Type species:

   Strzeleckia montanus Day, 1999 by original designation.
• Daymfus Özdikmen, H. & Demir, E. 2010. Daymfus nom.nov., a substitute name for the preoccupied genus Strzeleckia Day, 1999 (Hemiptera: Membracidae). Munis Entomology and Zoology 5(1): 303 [303] [replacement name].

 

Introduction

Day (1999) recognised two species of this genus, one which he described based on a single female from New South Wales, and the other which he called "S. sp. 1" from several locations in New South Wales, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and South Australia, most of which were in mountainous areas. The etymology was given by Day (1999) as "Named for Paul E. Strzelecki, believed to be the first European to climb Mt Kosciuszko (1840)". The etymology of Daymfus is given as "The name is dedicated [to] M. F. Day who is the current author of the preexisting genus Strzeleckia."

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Diagnosis

Small pale coloured species. Male smaller, darker than female. Pronotal notch weakly developed. Lateral pronotal processes absent. Clypeus short and broad. Subcostal cell unusually wide. Venation not reticulate. Crossveins lacking. Very few small cucullate setae on hind tibia (Day 1999).

 

Diagnosis References

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [718–720]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)