Genus Interocrea Walker, 1870

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• Interocrea Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected in the Indian Archipelago by Mr A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10: 276-330 [328].

  Type species:

   Interocrea nigripes Walker, 1870 by monotypy.
• Eurycercopis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [383].

  Type species:

   Eurycercopis nigrofasciata Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. A review of the Australian aphrophorid spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42(1): 84-93 [87] (synonymy of Eurycercopis)

Introduction

This genus is primarily distributed in New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia. Two species have been recorded in far North Queensland. The shape of the head, with the vertex as long as the pronotum and separated from the face by a carinate margin, distinguishes species of this genus from other Australian spittlebugs.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

More or less dorsoventrally compressed. Head narrower than pronotum. Vertex as long as or longer than pronotum. Tegmina slender to robust, pubescent, veins inconspicuous, not reticulate. Fore legs distinctly longer than hind legs. Hind tibia with one large and one small spurs. Aedeagus shaft tubular, straight, unarmed. Parameres with apex bi- or tridentate (Hamilton 1980).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2003) Illustrated Key to the genera of the subfamily Aphrophorinae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/cercopid/aphrophor/aphro00.htm [accessed 18.iv.2012]

Diagnosis References

Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Aphrophorinae of the Solomon Islands (Rhynchota, Homoptera, Cercopidae). Pacific Insects 22: 361-379 [67]

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