Genus Eurymelessa Evans, 1933

Eurymelessa moruyana (Distant), type species of Eurymelessa Evans.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Eurymelessa Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [88].

  Type species:

   Eurymeloides moruyana Distant, 1917 by original designation.

Introduction

This monotypic genus contains a distinctively coloured species widely distributed in eastern Australia and also recorded in Papua New Guinea.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Nandewar (NAN), 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)

Diagnosis

This genus can be separated from Eurymeloides, which it somewhat resembles, principally by the characters of the male genitalia. The styles on the subgenital plates are rudimentary and the aedeagus is longer and narrow than those of Eurymeloides spp. The head is slightly subangularly produced and is inclined at a steep angle to the rest of the body, the maxillary plates are very broad. The venation of the tegmina is not reticulate apically and the appendix is well developed. The hind tibiae have two spurs and numerous spines (Evans 1933).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2005) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Tribe Eurymelini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/eurymelinae/eury00.html

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [88]

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