Genus Ezrana Distant, 1908

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Regional Maps

• Ezrana Distant, W.L. 1908. Rhynchota. — Vol. IV. Homoptera and Appendix. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 4: 1-501 [177].

  Type species:

   Ezrana pygmaea Distant, 1908 by original designation.

Introduction

This genus is shared between India and Australia with one species in each. The Australian species, E. primitiva Evans was described from the wet tropics of North Queensland but a single female has also been found in NE New South Wales. It is distinctive in the shape of the head, the raised crest on the pronotum and the raised bases of the claval veins.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Nandewar (NAN), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

♂. Head shorter than breadth between eyes; ocelli very prominent, placed on disk behind middle and slightly nearer to each other than to eyes, lateral margins straight for a short distance in front of eyes then narrowed to apex, which is obtusely acute; pronotum non-carinate, but centrally longitudinally sulcate, lateral margins a little concavely sinuate, posterior angles subprominent, posterior margin sinuate; other characters generally as in Ledra; legs imperfectly seen, owing to corrosion in typical specimen, but the posterior tibiae not foliaceously dilated (Distant 1908).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2000) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Tribe Ledrini found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Ledrinae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/ledrinae/led00.htm [accessed: 21.ix.2011]

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1908. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 4 xv 501 pp. [177]

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