Genus Hasta Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Hasta Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [394] [Metcalf (1946) credited this genus to Melichar (1912) which would appear to be an error].

  Type species:

   Hasta hastata Kirkaldy, 1906 by subsequent designation, see Melichar, L. 1912. Monographie der Dictyophorinen. Abhandlungen der K.K. Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 7(1): 1-221 [109].

Introduction

This genus contains the common, long headed green dictyopharid commonly swept from grass in eastern Australia. Both of the Australian species were originally described by Kirkaldy (1906) from specimens collected in grass which may be the preferred host for species of Hasta. A number of species from Africa were placed in the genus by Melichar (1912) and Muir (1934). Melichar (1912) provided keys to the species but whether the African species are truly congeneric with the Australian species needs to be investigated.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Allied to Thanatodictya, but head and pronotum differently formed. In the latter the lateral margins of pronotum are convex, in the present genus they are straight or a little concave. head slightly ascending, somewhat tapering. Central keels of vertex and frons entire. Eyes small, elongate. Lateral margins of scutellum more rounded basally. Tegmina with apical cells and with many transverse veins; costal cell without transverse veins; stimga composed of three cells. Posterior tibiae 3-spinose. (Kirkialdy 1906)

ID Keys

Kirkaldy (1906: 391); Melichar (1912: 33)

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [394]

Melichar, L. 1912. Monographie der Dictyophorinen. Abhandlungen der K.K. Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 7(1): 1-221 [109]

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