Genus Limotettix J. Sahlberg, 1871

Museums

Regional Maps

• Limotettix Sahlberg. J.R. 1871. Ofversigt af Finlands och den Skandinaviska hälfons Cicadariae. I. Notiser ur Sâllskapets pro Fauna et Flora Fennica Förhandlingar 9(12): 1-506 [224].

  Type species:

   Cicada striola Fallèn, 1806 by subsequent designation, see Van Duzee, E.P. 1892. A synoptical arrangement of the genera of North American Jassidae, with descriptions of some new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 19: 295-307 [306].
• Drylix Edwards, J. 1922. A generic arrangement of British Jassina. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 58: 204-207 [206].

  Type species:

   Cicada striola Fallèn, 1806 by subsequent designation, see Ball, E.D. 1929. A supplemental revision of the genus Athysanus in North America (Homoptera : Cicadellidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 55: 1-8 [6].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lindberg, H. 1924. Anteckningar om Ostfennoskandiens Cicadina. Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 56: 3-49 [44]

Introduction

The genus Limotettix is considered by some authors to include a range of subgenera covering most faunal regions of the world. However, the three Australian and four New Zealand species have not been placed in subgenera. Two of the Australian species, L. incertus Evans and L. pullatus (Evans) are elongate narrow species with fine transverse black striping across the front of the vertex. The third Australian species, L. tachyporias Kirkaldy does not belong in the genus.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Diagnosis

Corpus elongatum vel oblongum. Caput antice obtusum, vertice sublunato vel medio plus minusve producto, supra convexiusculo; ocellis aeque longe ac antennis ab oculis remotis; fronte longitudine sua basali plerumque distincte longiore: genis sub oculis impressis, lateribus sinuatis, abscissa genali latitudine basali distincte longiore. Rostrum breviusculum. Antennae plerumque longae. Pronotum transversum, lateribus teretibus. Tegmina semper explicata, lateribus vix rotundatis, apice intus appendice membranae distincta praeditis. Alae omnino ut in genere praecedenti. Pedes elongati, tibiis anterioribus extus intusque setosis, posticis 4-seriatim spinulosis (Sahlberg 1871).

The face of the head is widely diamond-shaped and the labium terminates between the middle coxae. The anteclypeus is broad and slightly wider posteriorly than anteriorly. The frontoclypeus, which is convex, slopes laterally and narrowly extends onto the crown of the head. The ocelli, which are marginal in position, are close to, but not immediately adjacent to the eyes. The crown is roundly acute and considerably longer in the centre than against the eyes. The tegmina have wide appendices (Evans 1966).

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [229]

Sahlberg. J.R. 1871. Ofversigt af Finlands och den Skandinaviska hälfons Cicadariae. I. Notiser ur Sâllskapets pro Fauna et Flora Fennica Förhandlingar 9(12): 1-506 [224–225]

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