Genus Deferunda Distant, 1912

Museums

Regional Maps

• Deferunda Distant, W.L. 1912. Descriptions of new genera and species of Oriental Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 181-194 [186].

  Type species:

   Deferunda stigmatica Distant, 1912 by original designation.
• Majella Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [421] [preoccupied by Majella Ortmann, 1893].

  Type species:

   Majella majella Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.
• Okatropis Matsumura, S. 1914. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Fulgoriden Japans. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 12: 261-305 [272].

  Type species:

   Okatropis rubrostigma Matsumura, 1914 by original designation.
• Majellana Metcalf, Z.P. 1948. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea. Part 10, Achilidae. Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 85 pp. [63] [nom. nov. for Majella Kirkaldy, 1906, not Majella Ortmann, 1893].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [104]

Introduction

This genus is widespread from the Palaearctic region (Hungary) across the Oriental region to Japan and N. Queensland in Australia. Fennah (1950) synonymised generic names from several localities under this name. Only one species is known from Australia.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Distinguished from any of the other Australian genera, by the lateral keels of the frons meeting in an angle at the base, and the genae being subfoliaceous and dorsally prominent. General appearance of Phenelia, but the veins are strongly granulate, and the apical third of tegmen is more or less declivous. Posterior tibiae with a spine. (Kirkaldy 1906, of Majella)

The genus is readily distinguishable by the extreme foliation of the basal portion of the lateral carinae of the frons and by the tegminal venation (Fennah 1950)

ID Keys

Kirkaldy 1906: 417, as Majella; Fennah 1950: 47, as Deferunda

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [104]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [421]

General References

Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [104]

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