Subgenus Kamendaka (Kamendaka) Distant, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Kamendaka Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Homoptera. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 3: 1-503 [310].

  Type species:

   Kamendaka spectra Distant, 1906 by original designation.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Kamandaka Distant, 1906 [subsequent misspelling]. —
  Muir, F. 1924. On some new and little-known Australian Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1): 29-36 [30]

Introduction

Muir (1918) divided the genus Kamendaka into three subgenera based on the structure of the head, particularly the angle at which the vertex met the frons in profile. Those with this angle being about 90º were placed in the subgenus Eosaccharissa Kirkaldy (which has one Australian species) while those at the other extreme, with the face and vertex meeting at about 45º, were placed in the subgenus Nicertoides Matsumura (which is not represented in Australia). The intermediate forms were placed in the nominal subgenus Kamendaka Distant, with one species from Cairns in the wet tropics of North Queensland. The subgenus Kamendaka is otherwise distributed in the Philppines, Korea, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Head and frons, in profile, meeting at less than 90º and greater than 45º and face not strongly curved (Muir 1918)

Diagnosis References

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

General References

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

History of changes