Genus Falcotoya Fennah, 1969

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• Falcotoya Fennah, R.G. 1969. Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. Pacific Insects Monographs 21: 1-116 [39].

  Type species:

   Falcotoya aurinia Fennah, 1969 by original designation.

Introduction

This genus of nine species is widespread across the Palaearctic and Oriental regions extending to New Caledonia in the Pacific. Bellis et al. (2013) recorded the genus from Australia with one species found at numerous localities from Kununurra in Western Australia across the top end of the Northern Territory and along the eastern coastline of Queensland to the Hoskyn Islands.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

The type species runs to Toya Distant in Fennah's (1965) key to genera. It is separated from Toya by relatively stouter build, a more transverse vertex and a relatively shorter rostrum. In the rostrum of Toya attenuata the subapical segment attains the mesotrochanter and the apical segment reaches the post-coxa and in side view is about 4 X as long as broad at base, whereas in Falcotoya the subapical segment does not reach the mesotrochanter and the apical segment, which does so, is scarcely more than 2 X as long as broad at base, in side view (Fennah 1969).

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [4–6]

Fennah, R.G. 1969. Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. Pacific Insects Monographs 21: 1-116 [39–40]

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