Genus Homa Distant, 1908

Museums

Regional Maps

• Homa Distant, W.L. 1908. Rhynchota. — Vol. IV. Homoptera and Appendix. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 4: 1-501 [400].

  Type species:

   Homa insignis Distant, 1908 by original designation.

Introduction

This small Oriental genus has a single Australian record from Redlynch in the wet tropics of North Queensland. The species found in Queensland is otherwise restricted to Sri Lanka and it may represent an introduction from there. The species is unknown to the compiler.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Vertex subquadrate, longer than breadth between eyes at base, rounded but very slightly produced in front of eyes, which are almost as long as the vertex and do not project over the anterior angles of the pronotum; face long, broad, narrowing to clypeus which is short and broad; pronotum shorter than vertex, transverse, a little rounded in front, the lateral margins nearly straight; scutellum broad, subtriangular; legs slender, posterior tibiae strongly spinulose and shghtly curved; tegmina long, much longer than abdomen, apical cells three, large, and subequal in length (Distant 1908).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1908. Rhynchota. — Vol. IV. Homoptera and Appendix. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 4: 1-501 [400]

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