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Genus Kurandella Fennah, 1950


Compiler and date details

28.7.2010 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Introduction

In creating this genus, Fennah (1950) provided illustrations of the head, tegmen and female genitalia. The single included species is based on a single female specimen from Kuranda, N. Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Head with eyes distinctly narrower than pronotum. Vertex not or scarcely declivous, broader across base than long in middle line (1.2:1), produced before eyes for about half their length, median carina distinct only in basal half, disk depressed, anterior margin carinate, convex in an angle of about 120 degrees, lateral margins elevated, subfoliate, moderately diverging basad, posterior margin broadly concave; frons shallowly convex in profile, longer in middle line than broad (1.7:1), widest part wider than base (2.3:1), basal margin truncate or shallowly excavate, median carina distinct, percurrent, lateral margins convex, diverging to below level of antennae thence moderately incurved to suture, slightly foliate obliquely, disk of frons not depressed; clypeus short, about two-fifths length of frons, medially and laterally carinate, antennae subglobose, not sunk in a depression, ocelli very narrowly separated from eyes, eyes not excavate beneath, only slightly overlapping pronotum. Pronotum distinctly short, about as long behind eyes as in middle line, anterior margin of disk convex, posterior margin rectangulately excavate, median carina present, lateral carina obscure or obsolete, pronotum laterad of disk not inclined anteroventrally except where overlapped by eyes, two carinae between eye and tegula, ventral margin of lateral pronotal lobes angulate and oblique; mesonotum longer than vertex and pronotum combined, tricarinate; pro-tibiae equal to profemora with trochanters, post-tibiae with a single spine basad of middle. Tegmina nearly three times as long as broad, costal margin slightly convex, Sc+R fork about level with Cu1 fork and union of claval veins, M forked level with stigma; clavus terminating distad of middle. (Fennah 1950)

Kurandella is distinguished by characters of the frons, vertex and pronotum and by the tegminal venation. (Fennah 1950)

 

ID Keys

Fennah 1950: 47

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Aug-2010 12-Aug-2010 MODIFIED
21-Jul-2010 MODIFIED