Genus Liorhina Stål, 1870

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• Liorhina Stål, C. 1870. Hemiptera insularum Philippinarum. Bidrag till Philippinska oarnes Hemipter-fauna. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 27: 607-776 [722].

  Type species:

   Liorhina reflexa Stål, 1870 by monotypy.

Introduction

This genus is well represented in Bougaineville and the Solomon Islands with more than a dozen species, all distinctively and boldly marked. Only one species is known from Australia. L. loxosema (Hacker) was described, as Clovia loxosema Hacker, from SE Queensland and NE New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Not dorsoventrally compressed; head about as wide as pronotum, crown rounded, longer than half length of pronotum on midline; tegmina robust, setose, veins inconspicuous, forming 3 preapical cells of similar width; forelegs longer than hindlegs, but femora not extending beyond front of head. Aedeagus shaft slender to lamellate, straight or curved anteroventrally, unarmed; apices of parameres unidentate to tridentate. (Liang & Fletcher 2003, after Hamilton 1980)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2003) Illustrated Key to the genera of the subfamily Aphrophorinae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/cercopid/aphrophor/aphro00.htm [accessed 18.iv.2012]

Diagnosis References

Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Aphrophorinae of the Solomon Islands (Rhynchota, Homoptera, Cercopidae). Pacific Insects 22: 361-379 [371]

Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. A review of the Australian aphrophorid spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42(1): 84-93 [87]

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