Genus Drabescus Stål, 1870

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• Drabescus Stål, C. 1870. Hemiptera insularum Philippinarum. Bidrag till Philippinska oarnes Hemipter-fauna. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 27: 607-776 [738].

  Type species:

   Bythoscopus remotus Walker, 1851 by monotypy.
• Ochrescus Anufriev, G.A. & Emeljanov, A.F. 1988. Keys to the Identification of Insects of the Soviet Far East 2: Homoptera and Heteroptera. Leningrad : Nauka 972 pp. [174] [first introduced as a subgenus of Drabescus Stål, 1870].

  Type species:

   Drabescus ochrifrons Vilbaste, 1968 by original designation.
• Leucostigmidium Anufriev, G.A. & Emeljanov, A.F. 1988. Keys to the Identification of Insects of the Soviet Far East 2: Homoptera and Heteroptera. Leningrad : Nauka 972 pp. [174] [first introduced as a subgenus of Drabescus Stål, 1870].

  Type species:

   Drabescus nigrifemoratus Matsumura, 1905 by original designation.
• Paradrabescus Kuoh, C.L. 1985. New species of Drabescus and a new allied genus (Homoptera: Iassidae). Acta Zoologica Sinica 31: 377-383 [379].

  Type species:

   Paradrabescus testaceus Kuoh, 1985 by original designation.
• Tylissus Stål, C. 1870. Hemiptera insularum Philippinarum. Bidrag till Philippinska oarnes Hemipter-fauna. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 27: 607-776 [739].

  Type species:

   Tylissus nitens Stål, 1870 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Zhang, Y. & Webb, M.D. 1996. A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 65(1): 1-103 [23] (synonymy of Ochrescus, Leucostigmidium, Paradrabescus and Tylissus)

Introduction

This genus of 37 species is primarily SE Asian in distribution. One species is found on Christmas Island and another in New Guinea and along the eastern seaboard of Queensland from Cape York Peninsula to Heron Island.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Diagnosis

Ocelli ab oculis remoti, quam antennae fere longius ab oculis remoti. Tibiae anteriores superne late subsulcatae, margine superiore tibiarum anticarum distincte dilatato (Stål 1870).

ID Keys

Zhang & Webb 1996: 23

Diagnosis References

Stål, C. 1870. Hemiptera insularum Philippinarum. Bidrag till Philippinska oarnes Hemipter-fauna. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 27: 607-776 [738]

Zhang, Y. & Webb, M.D. 1996. A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 65(1): 1-103 [23]

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