Genus Levu Kirkaldy, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Levu Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [434].

  Type species:

   Levu vitiensis Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.
• Alara Distant, W.L. 1911. Descriptions of new genera and species of Oriental Hemiptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 8: 639-649 [643].

  Type species:

   Alara dux Distant, 1911 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Muir, F. 1918. Notes on the Derbidae in the British Museum collection. II. Derbinae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 54: 228-243 [243] (synonymy of Alara)

Introduction

This genus contains more than a dozen species scattered around the Oriental and Pacific regions, and one in west Africa, although a revision of the group might move that species elsewhere. Two species have been recorded in Australia, one in Queensland and the other described from Fiji but recorded in Australia based on an identified specimen in ASCU from Narara, north of Sydney, New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Vertex and frons confused, extending well in front of the eyes, disk greatly depressed, very narrow, long triangular, lateral margins acute and converging, meeting close to anterior margin of eyes, contiguous till past the eyes and then widening a little apically. Clypeus basally depressed. Eyes prominent, much wider than vertex. Pronotum deeply rectangularly emarginate. Tegmina narrow, elongate (Kirkaldy 1906).

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [434]

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