Genus Hindoloides Distant, 1915

Hindoloides appendiculata (Hacker), type species of Hindoloides Distant.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Hindoloides Distant, W.L. 1915. A few undescribed Rhynchota. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 503-507 [506].

  Type species:

   Hindoloides indicans Distant, 1915 by monotypy.
• Weigoldella Haupt, H. 1923. Die Homoptera der Tibetreise W. Stötzners. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1923: 295-306 [299].

  Type species:

   Weigoldella bipunctata Haupt, 1924 by monotypy.
• Soa Jacobi, 1928 [junior homonym; of Soa Enderlein 1904 (Psocoptera)].

  Type species:

   Polychaetophyes appendiculata Hacker, 1926 by original designation.
• Soamachaerota Metcalf, Z.P. 1952. New names in the Homoptera. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 42: 226-231 [228] [replacement name; for Soa Jacobi 1928].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Baker, C.F. 1927. Some Philippine and Malaysian Machaerotidae (Cercopoidea). Philippine Journal of Science 32: 529-547 [546] (Synonymy of Weigoldella)

Introduction

This genus is distributed across the Oriental region from India to China and Japan with a single species found in eastern coastal mainland Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Crown long, when viewed vertically to its plane, median length 1.5-2.5 x side length. Pleurostome 1.5 x as broad as lorum. Eye rather small, slightly narrower than tylus, nearly as long as broad when viewed vertically to plane of crown. Tylus distinctly broader than its distance to eye. Interocellar distance 2/3 of ocello-ocular distance. Pronotum much broader than head; median carina usually wanting; anterolateral margin about 2.5-3.0 x as long as interocellar distance, about 2/5-1/2 as long as posterolateral margin, hardly reflexed; posterolateral margin less deeply sinuate than posterior margin. Scutellum slightly broader than interocular distance. Tegmen nearly hyaline or not transparent; veins very indistinct and rather intraspecifically variable; R often forked near apex; rm usually present; M1+2 and M3+4 usually long, M1+2 sometimes branched at apex, Cu1 rather strong, apart from claval furrow; almost always 3 apical cells; preapical cell 3, when present, triangular, large, enclosed by M-stem, M3+4 and Cu1; clavus apically very broadly rounded, 1A and 2A adnate at base; corial appendix subrectangular, 2/5-1/2 as long as broad; claval appendix trapezoid. Apical 1/2 or 1/3 of tegmina evenly convex or rather abruptly bent mesad, when closed, corial appendices, and sometimes also apices of coria proper, overlapping one another and about 45-60 degrees to horizontal plane. (Maa 1963)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2001) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the subfamily Machaerotinae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/cercopid/machaero/mach00.htm [accessed 20.iv.2012]

Diagnosis References

Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [16]

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