Genus Ledracotis Evans, 1937

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ledracotis Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 7. — Stenocotidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 157-164 [162].

  Type species:

   Ledracotis gunnensis Evans, 1937 by monotypy.

 

Introduction

This genus is monotypic and endemic. The expansive and undulating crown distinguishes it from other Stenocotini.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Diagnosis

The head is flattened anteriorly, the maxillary plates extending alongside and beyond the apex of the clypeus and the labium reaches as far as the hind coxae. The antennal ridges are prominent and extend across the frontal sutures. Dorsally the head has a median trough-shaped depression, the crown is produced anteriorly and the ocelli are on the sides of ridges and face outwards and forwards. The pronotum is evenly convex, very wide laterally and the propleurae widely separate the eyes from the bases of the [tegmina]. The scutellum is flat and transversely striated. The tegmina narrow apically and the hind tibiae, in addition to three rows of small spines, have a row of six flattened spurs decreasing in size from the apex to the base (Evans 1937).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2003) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Tribe Stenocotini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Tartessinae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/tartessinae/sten00.htm [accessed 29.xi.2011]

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 7. — Stenocotidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 157-164 [162]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)