Genus Leptolamia Metcalf, 1936

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leptolamia Metcalf, Z.P. 1936. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea. Part 2, Cixiidae. Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 269 pp. [25] [replacement name; for Leptochlamys Kirkaldy, 1907].
• Leptochlamys Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [113] [junior homonym; junior homonym of Leptochlamys West, 1901].

  Type species:

   Leptochlamys compressa Kirkaldy, 1907 by monotypy.

 

Introduction

This Australian endemic genus was revised by Löcker (2014) who added 13 new species to bring the total known species to 15 distributed primarily in eastern parts of Queensland and New South Wales although one species was described from South Australia and Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Somewhat allied to Calamister but the head is different and the tegmina are strongly compressed. Vertex transverse, scarcely extending so far as the anterior margin of the eyes, part of the frons visible dorsally. Head laterally strongly carinate (a little foliaceously on the frons), frons and clypeus strongly keeled medianly, vertex strongly keeled anteriorly transversely, and there is a transverse keel between this and the base but no longitudinal keel. Antennae very short. Ocelli present. Pronotum deeply emarginate posteriorly. Scutellum with 3 keels. (Kirkaldy 1907, as Leptochlamys)

Leptolamia "can be distinguished from all other genera of Australian Cixiini by a combination of the following characters: median carina of frons unforked; second hind tarsomere without platellae but with up to three very fine setae; basal compartment of vertex no more than half as long as wide and apical transverse carina of head not deeply u-shaped." (Löcker 2014).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [113]

Löcker, B. 2014. Shedding light on Jacobi's types whilst discovering new species: a taxonomic revision of Leptolamia Metcalf, 1936 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Austral Entomology 53: 391–423 [Article first published online: 14 APR 2014] [392]

 

General References

Löcker, B. 2014. Shedding light on Jacobi's types whilst discovering new species: a taxonomic revision of Leptolamia Metcalf, 1936 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Austral Entomology 53: 391–423 [Article first published online: 14 APR 2014]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
02-Jun-2014	CIXIIDAE Spinola, 1839	30-May-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
13-Oct-2010		13-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)