Genus Empoascanara Distant, 1918

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Introduction

Empoascanara is represented in Australia by at least 30 species, only two of which are currently named, all in the subgenus Empoascanara which was created by Dworakowska (1976) when she apparently transferred the genus Kanguza Dworakowska to be a subgenus of Empoascanara, thereby moving all previously described species to the nominate subgenus Empoascanara. Dworakowska (1978) reviewed the genus and recognised a number of species groups, although no mention was made of the subgenus Kanguza. In 1979, Dworakowska added the subgenus Bza Dworakowska. Dworakowska (1992) reviewed the genus again and recognised 8 "clusters" of species within the subgenus Empoascanara with two species listed in Empoascanara (Kanguza) which is limited to the eastern Oriental region and six species in Empoascanara (Bza) which is distributed across the Oriental region from India to Indonesia. The subgenus Empoascanara contains almost 80 described species distributed from the Pacific and Australian regions through the Oriental and eastern Palaearctic to Africa.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, Qld, WA: Pine Creek (PCK)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Diagnosis

Vertex of head in length more than half the breadth between eyes, subconically produced anteriorly; face elongate, prominently obliquely narrowed to clypeus, its greatest breadth between eyes more than half its length; pronotum longer than either vertex of head or scutellum, anterior margin moderately convex between eyes, posterior margin truncate; scutellum subtriangular; tegmina more than three times as long as broad, three long apical cells and a somewhat large and prominent subbasal costal cell; posterior tibiae with long, dense spinules (Distant 1918).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1918. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Homoptera: Appendix, Heteroptera: Appendix). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 7 viii 210 pp. [94]

General References

Dworakowska, I. 1976. On some Oriental and Ethiopian Typhlocybinae (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae). Reichenbachia 16(1): 1–51 [40]

Dworakowska, I. 1978. On the genera Empoascanara Dist. and Seriana Dwor. (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques II 26(3): 151–160

Dworakowska, I. 1979. On some Erythroneurini from Vietnam (Typhlocybinae, Cicadellidae). Annotationes Zoologicae et Botanicae, Bratislava 131: 1–50 [39]

Dworakowska, I. 1992. Review of the genus Empoascanara Dist. (Insecta, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Entomologische Abhandlungen. Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 54(5): 105–120

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