Genus Kirbyana Distant, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Kirbyana Distant, W.L. 1906. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera—Homoptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 3 xiv 503 pp. [262] [replacement name].
• Kirbya Melichar, L. 1903. Homopteren-Fauna von Ceylon. Berlin: Felix L. Dames. 248 pp. [37] [junior homonym].

  Type species:

   Kirbya pagana Melichar, 1903 (Sri Lanka) by monotypy.
• Kirbyella Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Bibliographical and nomenclatorial notes on the Hemiptera. – No. VI. The Entomologist 39: 247-249 [248] [replacement name; (unnecessary replacement name)].
• Saccharias Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Descriptions et remarques sur quelques Homoptères de la famille des Fulgoroideae vivant sur la canne à sucre. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 51: 123-127 [125].

  Type species:

   Saccharias deventeri Kirkaldy, 1907 (Indonesia) by monotypy.
• Commolenda Distant, W.L. 1911. Descriptions of new genera and species of Oriental Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 8: 735-747 [741].

  Type species:

   Commolenda deusta Distant, 1911 (India) by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fennah, R.G. 1978. Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from Vietnam. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 34: 207-280 [211] (synonymy of Commolenda Distant)
• Fennah, R.G. 1980. The genus Bajauana and two allied new genera in New Guinea (Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae). Pacific Insects 22(3-4): 237-328 [239] (synonymy of Saccharias Kirkaldy)

Introduction

This primarily Oriental genus contains a single Australian species which is known from Humpty Doo in the Northern Territory and near Cairns in the wet tropics of North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Morphology. Head: Head including eyes slightly narrower than pronotum. Vertex in profile horizontal, in same line as thorax, meeting frons abruptly rectangulately; subapical carina absent. Frons somewhat longer than broad; median carina present; anterior margin angularly emarginate or transverse; position of maximum width of frons more or less around centre of frontoclypeal suture. Median ocellus absent. Subapical segment of rostrum 2.8 times longer than apical segment. Thorax: Pronotum very narrow, scarcely half as long as vertex. Mesonotum nearly twice as long as pronotum and vertex together. Hindwing with simple Radius. Hind leg: tibia without lateral spines. Hind leg: tibia with 6 apical teeth (innermost tooth smallest and least sclerotised). Female genitalia: Ovipositor elongate, orthopteroid, slightly curved upwards, just reaching anal style; 8th sternite medially very long, slightly bent dorsad, posterior margin u-shaped; anal segment rectangular (wider than long) in dorsal view; anal style much longer than wide; 9th tergite without wax plates. (Löcker et.al. 2010)

ID Keys

Löcker, B. and Fletcher, M.J (2010). Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Tribe Eucarpiini found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/cixiid/eucarpiini/eucar00.htm

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the Australian Eucarpiini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of nine new species. Zootaxa (2425): 1-31 [14]

History of changes