Genus Erilla Distant, 1906

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• Erilla Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchotal Notes. xxxviii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 18: 18-32 [28].

  Type species:

   Erilla turneri Distant, 1906 by original designation.

Introduction

This monotypic genus is currently endemic to Australia. The only species is reasonably distinctive and recorded from "Queensland" and the Sydney Basin of New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB)

Diagnosis

Allied to Galela, but differing principally by the structure of the face, which is not longer than the clypeus, its lateral margins not parallel, but strongly sinuate and considerably widened or ampliated posteriorly, its base, as in Galela, considerably extends in front of eyes, medially tricarinate, the carinations wider apart anteriorly than posteriorly, clypeus very long, a liltle ampliate on each side at base; rostrum extending beyond middle of abdomen; posterior tibiae (in type) with six spines; mesonotum tricarinate, with a lobate appendage on each side at base; tegmina and wings as in Galela (Distant 1906).

ID Keys

Lallemand 1963: 51

Fletcher, M.J. (2005) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Fulgoridae described from Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/fulgorid/fulgo00.htm

Diagnosis References

Lallemand, V. 1963. Revision des Fulgoridae (Homoptera). Deuxième partie. Faunes Asiatique et Australienne. Memoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 2nd Series 75: 1-99 [52]

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