Genus Dikraneura Hardy, 1850

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• Dikraneura Hardy, J. 1850. Descriptions of some new British Homopterous insects. Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club 1: 416-431 [423].

  Type species:

   Dikraneura variata Hardy, 1850 by monotypy.
• Chloroneura Walsh, B.D. 1862. Fire blight. Two new foes of the apple and pear. Prairie Farmer n.s. 10: 147-149 [149].

  Type species:

   Chloroneura abnormis Walsh, 1862 by subsequent designation, see McAtee, W.L. 1934. Genera and subgenera of Eupteryginae (Homoptera: Jassidae). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1934: 93-117 [97].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Van Duzee, E.P. 1916. Suborder Homoptera Latr. 1810. Section Auchenorhyncha A. & S. 1843. In, Check list of Hemiptera (excepting the Aphididae, Aleurodidae and Coccidae) of America North of Mexico. 1-111 pp. [76] (synonymy of Chloroneura)

Introduction

The genus Dikraneura Hardy is a species rich genus distributed primarily across the Palaearctic, Nearctic and Neotropical regions and it is unlikely, although possible, that a genuine representative is present in the Australian fauna. A species described in the genus from New Zealand was transferred to the new genus Matatua by Knight (1976) and it is possible that the Australian species, D. honiala Kirkaldy also needs to be transferred to a local genus, although it does not appear to belong in Matatua.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Head somewhat pointed, triangulate, the crown very faintly ridged; face long; ocelli not perceived; antennae moderate; elytra nerved nearly as in Aphrodes, the small cell under the costa wanting; wings with the upper nervures disposed in two forks, the upper opening inwardly on the base, the second and shorter pronged outwardly on the apex, no apparent cross nervures (Hardy 1850).

ID Keys

Evans 1966: 257–258

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [257–258]

Hardy, J. 1850. Descriptions of some new British Homopterous insects. Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club 1: 416-431 [423]

General References

Knight, W.J. 1976. Typhlocybinae of New Zealand (Homoptera : Cicadellidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 2(2): 71-87 [86]

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