Genus Ficarasa Walker, 1857

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Regional Maps

• Ficarasa Walker, F. 1857. Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo, by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 1: 141-175 [162].

  Type species:

   Ficarasa pallida Walker, 1857 by monotypy.

Introduction

This genus contains two species, one in eastern Indonesia and New Guinea and the other from Sarawak with a single record from the Northern Territory by Lallemand & Synave (1953) who may have misidentified the specimen. The Australian record is regarded as being unconfirmed.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Pine Creek (PCK)

Diagnosis

Head with elevated borders; vertex transverse, arched; front elongate, with a slight middle keel, with a slight groove along each side, and with very obtusely angular borders; face lanceolate. Fore wings rather narrow, rounded towards the tips; basal areolets more than half the length of the wing; marginal areolets very little longer than the middle areolets, several of which are forked; costal veinlets and exterior veinlets numerous, the former oblique and parallel (Walker 1857).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2001) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Tropiduchidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/tropid/tropid00.htm

Diagnosis References

Walker, F. 1857. Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo, by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 1: 141-175 [162]

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