Genus Euryphantia Kirkaldy, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Euryphantia Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [456].

  Type species:

   Euryphantia cinerascens Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.
• Thanatochlamys Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [101].

  Type species:

   Thanatochlamys tristis Kirkaldy, 1907 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fletcher, M.J. 1980. Review of the Australian genera Euryphantia Kirkaldy and Thanatochlamys Kirkaldy (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea, Flatidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 7(2): 21-26 [21]

 

Introduction

A genus with two described species from Northern Australia with one extending to New Guinea. The genus was reviewed by Fletcher (1980).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

North Queensland.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Diagnosis

Head slightly produced anteriorly. Frons and vertex meeting at carinate margin. Frons elongate, clearly tricarinate. Vertex flat to slightly undulate. Pronotum and mesonotum convex with percurrent median longitudinal carina. Tegmen with slightly convex apical margin between rounded angles. Costal cell and constal membrane more or less of equal width. Cu simple. Subapical lines absent. Hind tibia with one spine on shaft (Fletcher 1988).

The brown coloration would also appear to be of generic significance since all species of related genera such as Euphanta Melichar, are basically green (Fletcher 1980).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2005). Illustrated key to the genera of the family Flatidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/flatid/flat00.htm

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 1980. Review of the Australian genera Euryphantia Kirkaldy and Thanatochlamys Kirkaldy (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea, Flatidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 7(2): 21-26 [21–22]

Fletcher, M.J. 1988. The Australian genera of Flatidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). General and Applied Entomology 20: 9-32 [16]

 

General References

Fletcher, M.J. 1980. Review of the Australian genera Euryphantia Kirkaldy and Thanatochlamys Kirkaldy (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea, Flatidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 7(2): 21-26 [21]

 

History of changes

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