Genus Eocenchrea Muir, 1913

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• Eocenchrea Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [36].

  Type species:

   Eocenchrea maorica Muir, 1913 by original designation.
• Gonyphlepsia Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [39].

  Type species:

   Gonyphlepsia montistympani Jacobi, 1928 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Muir, F. 1934. New and little-known Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10(14): 561-586 [565] (synonymy of Gonyphlepsia)

Introduction

A small genus of small narrow-winged derbids found in Australia and the near Pacific region, including New Zealand. Numerous undescribed species are known in North Queensland and the genus may well also have many undescribed species in New Guinea.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB) ; Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

In profile vertex and face gradually curved, very slight angulation at junction of vertex and face. Vertex about half as long as broad, base and apex nearly truncate, slightly narrowed at apex, excavate in middle, transverse keel separating vertex from face ; face laterally angulate and broadest about one-fourth from apex, then narrowing to apex, lateral keels deep, distinct median carina ; large subantennal process from angle of face to back of gena ; antennae oval, small ; lateral ocellus beneath eye ; clypeus large, flattened, tricarinate, lateral carinae large ; pronotum short, shoulder keels very small ; scutellum as long as broad, lateral angles about middle, indistinctly tricarinate, especially the lateral ones. Tegmen with long subcostal cell, four median sectors, the first furcate (Muir 1913)

Diagnosis References

Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [36]

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