Genus Kamendaka Distant, 1906

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Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Muir, F. 1918. Notes on the Derbidae in the British Museum collection. II. Derbinae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 54: 228-243

Introduction

This genus was divided into three subgenera by Muir (1918) on the basis of the angle at which the vertex meets the face and the degree of convexity of the face, in lateral view. Only two species have been recorded in Australia, one in the nominal subgenus and the other in subgenus Eosaccharissa Kirkaldy. The Australian species are restricted to the eastern coastline of Queensland. Elsewhere, the genus is widely distributed in the Oriental region from India to Indonesia and north to Japan with a few species in the Afrotropical region.

Distribution

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Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Head (including eyes) very much narrower than pronotum; vertex projecting beyond the eyes, somewhat flat, conically rounded anteriorly, and at the apex the upper margins of the face appear as two angulations, its base angularly emarginate; face as seen beneath the flattened vertex very narrow to between eyes and then broadened to clypeus, which is a little convex, apical joint of rostrum minute; pronotum very narrow, strongly centrally angulate; mesonotum large, more than four times longer than pronotum, very obsoletely carinate; legs moderately long, posterior tibiae not spined, basal joint of posterior tarsi elongate; tegmina elongate, its margins parallel, the apex obtusely angulate, the apical margin oblique, the longitudinal veins bifurcating posteriorly and delimiting a number of irregularly shaped subapical areas, a regular series of transverse veins before apical margin defining numerous short apical areas, some transverse veins beyond middle of costal membrane; wings ample, only a little shorter and slightly broader than tegmina (Distant 1906).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1906. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera—Homoptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 3 xiv 503 pp. [310]

General References

Muir, F. 1918. Notes on the Derbidae in the British Museum collection. II. Derbinae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 54: 228-243 [240]

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