Tribe Lipocalliini Fennah, 1984

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• Lipocalliini Fennah, R.G. 1984. Revisionary notes on the classification of the Nogodinidae (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 120: 81-86 [84].

  Type genus:

   Lipocallia Kirkaldy, 1906.

Introduction

The common name "pebblebugs" was coined for this group of planthoppers by Dr Melinda Moir because of their spherical shape and cryptic markings giving them the appearance of small round pebbles. The known Australian species are currently placed in two endemic genera, the monotypic Lipocallia Kirkaldy and Bilbilicallia Jacobi with three species in Western Australia and one described from "Australia".

Diagnosis

Tegmina steeply tectiform, with costal margin strongly produced anteriorly below eye, venation finely reticulate. Basal segment of metatarsus with two teeth and a dense pad of small setae. Male with genital styles relatively short ventrally and longer on apical margin, margin evenly rounded in posterior view. Ovipositor with third valvulae elongate triangular in side view, not strongly ascending distad, inner margin narrow, smooth, slightly callussed distally, with margins closely apposed throughout their length. Genital style with ventral margin as long as apical margin and in side view forming an almost even deeply convex curve with it, with surface of apposed styles in posteroventral view not medially or submedially depressed (Fennah 1984).

ID Keys

Gnezdilov 2017: 3–6

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1984. Revisionary notes on the classification of the Nogodinidae (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 120: 81-86 [84]

Gnezdilov, V.M. 2017. Notes on higher classification of the family Nogodinidae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea) with description of new tribe and new species. Far Eastern Entomologist 347: 1–21

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