Genus Galela Distant, 1906

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• Galela Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchotal Notes. xxxviii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 18: 18-32 [26].

  Type species:

   Birdantis pallescens Distant, 1906 by original designation.

Introduction

This genus contains three species, two from Western Australia and one from Indonesia. They are fairly dull brownish species but the two Australian species have the base of the hindwings coloured with orange. Lallemand (1963) provides a key to separate the three species and Nagai & Porion (1996) provide illustrations in which the differences in the hindwing coloration of the three species are clearly visible.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Northern Kimberley (NK), Pilbara (PIL)

Diagnosis

Head large, broad, protruding considerably in front of eyes, broadly convex anteriorly, the margins above strongly ridged and its disk rugose; face long, broad, much longer than clypeus, its lateral margins parallel, its base convex and extending considerably in front of eyes, centrally longitudinally tricarinate, its apex concave, receiving base of clypeus, which is centrally obscurely carinate; rostrum reaching or passing the posterior coxae; pronotum a little shorter than head, centrally ridged; mesonotum centrally a little shorter than head and pronotum together; posterior tibiae with four or five spines; tegmina about three times as long as broad, transversely reticulate, more obscurely so on basal area; wings shorter and broader than tegmina, excepting at extreme base transversely reticulate (Distant 1906).

ID Keys

Lallemand 1963: 19

Fletcher, M.J. (2005) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Fulgoridae described from Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/fulgorid/fulgo00.htm

Diagnosis References

Lallemand, V. 1963. Revision des Fulgoridae (Homoptera). Deuxième partie. Faunes Asiatique et Australienne. Memoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 2nd Series 75: 1-99 [19–20 [key]; 49–50]

General References

Lallemand, V. 1963. Revision des Fulgoridae (Homoptera). Deuxième partie. Faunes Asiatique et Australienne. Memoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 2nd Series 75: 1-99 [50]

Nagai, S. & Porion, T. 1996. Fulgoridae 2. Catalogue illustré des faunes asiatique et australienne. 2 rue André Mellenne, 60280 Venette, France : Sciences Nat pp. 80. [Pl. 3]

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