Family EURYBRACHIDAE Stål, 1862

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• Eurybrachydidum Stål, C. 1862. Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 19(9): 479-504 [488].

  Type genus:

   Eurybrachys Guérin-Méneville, 1834.

Introduction

Eurybrachids are medium sized to smallish planthoppers frequently found on trunks of eucalypts or on branches of larger shrubs of the genus Acacia. The nymphs bear two long processes dorsally near the apex of the abdomen and these are thought to be uric acid crystals secreted through the life of each instar and discarded with the old skin between instars (Hacker 1924). The world fauna has been the subject of recent and continuing taxonomy work by Dr Jerôme Constant, in Belgium. All Australian eurybrachids are currently placed in the tribes Platybrachini and Dardini of the subfamily Platybrachinae although this classification is not satisfactory and is being reviewed as part of Constant's revision of the family.

Diagnosis

Hind tibiae without large movable spur at apex; Second segment of hind tarsi small, apically rounded or pointed, without spines; Frons wider than long; Clypeus without lateral carinae; Lateral margins of frons outwardly angulate near antennae.

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (1999) Identification key and checklists for the Planthoppers of Australia and New Zealand (Superfamily Fulgoroidea) https://idtools.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/index.html

General References

Hacker, H. 1924. Field notes on Platybrachys &c (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1): 37-42 [38]

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