Genus Euleimonios Kirkaldy, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Euleimonios Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [342].

  Type species:

   Euleimonios demittendus Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.
• Aconuromimus Linnavuori, R.E. 1954. A new leafhopper genus from Australia, Aconuromimus n.gen. (Hom., Cicadellidae). Annales Entomologici Fennici 20(2): 83-84 [83].

  Type species:

   Jassus (Deltocephalus) flavidiventris Stål, 1859 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [222] (synonymy of Aconuromimus)

 

Introduction

This endemic genus of small, often green, species was revised by Fletcher and Condello (1994) who increased the number of known species from one to nine by adding seven new species and transferring another to the genus from the hold-all genus Deltocephalus. The genus is immediately recognised by the swollen lora which overlap the sides of the anteclypeus.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Coolgardie (COO), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Diagnosis

Head wider across eyes than pronotum. Vertex longer in centre than against eyes, broadly arrow-shaped, ecarinate, bearing line of six dark spots (sometimes indistinct) across rounded front margin, the median two being triangular in shape. Frons convex, bearing transverse pattern of dark striping. Anteclypeus depressed medially. Lora enlarged, raised above level of gena laterally and overlapping lateral margins of anteclypeus. Pronotum short behind eyes with fine longitudinal carina from eye to hind margin. Front margin evenly convex; hind margin evenly concave. Tegmina extending to just beyond apex of abdomen in both sexes. Fore femur bearing row of evenly spaced setae on lower margin. Fore tibia with comb of long setae on inner surface and two or three longer setae on outer surface. Mid femur with ventral row of closely-spaced short setae. Mid tibia with three or four macrosetae on outer surface. Hind femur unadorned ventrally, with setal formula 2+2+1. Hind tibia flattened, with rows of strong macrosetae on each margin. Male subgenital plates united from base for at least 25% of length. Ovipositor with narrow, parallel-sided valvulae. First valvulae tapering to acute apex, dorsal half with cellular ornamentation extending to apex from near base and extending onto ventral half around apical area. Second valvulae with elongate stem with long dorsal sclerotisation, distinct membranous discontinuity on dorsal margin at three quarters length and short blade. Margin of blade lightly convex, bearing short even blunt teeth to apex. (Fletcher & Condello 1994)

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1994. A revision of the Australian leafhopper genus Euleimonios Kirkaldy (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Deltocephalinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1017-1035 [1018–1019]

 

General References

Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1994. A revision of the Australian leafhopper genus Euleimonios Kirkaldy (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Deltocephalinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1017-1035 [1017]

 

History of changes

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