Tribe Hindoloidini Baker, 1927

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hindoloidesini Baker, C.F. 1927. Some Philippine and Malaysian Machaerotidae (Cercopoidea). Philippine Journal of Science 32: 529-547 [533].

  Type genus:

   Hindoloides Distant, 1915.

Introduction

The members of this tribe are small hunchbacked insects with the apices of the tegmina overlapping. The nymphs live in calcareous tubes which spiral around the twig to form a snail-like coiled tube. The fauna is mainly African and Oriental with extensions into the eastern Palaearctic and Australasia. Australia has a single species in Queensland and NE New South Wales.

Diagnosis

Head never broader than anterior end of pronotum, supra-antennal triangle often clearly defined. Pronotum with 6 or 8 indistinct calli. Scutellum with no distinct lateral surfaces, never with free spine-like process. Mesonotal process broadly rounded, not produced caudad. Tegmen short, broad, opaque to transparent, often heavily punctate; apical margin nearly perpendicular to claval furrow; tegmina in repose apically bent across abdominal apex behind clavus, and there overlapping one another and forming a large oblique areole to cover abdominal apex; clavus apically broad and oblquely subtruncate, its marginal or ambient vein abruptly curved forward before meeting claval furrow; corial appendix never smaller than total area of apical cells. Hind tibia with 1-2 lateral spines (Maa 1963).

Diagnosis References

Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [7-9]

History of changes