Genus Lubra Goding, 1903

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lubra Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [28].

  Type species:

   Oxyrhachis spinicornis Walker, 1862 by subsequent designation, see Funkhouser, W.D. 1927. General Catalogue of the Hemiptera. Fasc. I. Membracidae. Northamton, Massachusetts : Smith College 581 pp. [432].

 

Introduction

This is a monotypic, endemic genus which is quite distinctive and easy to recognise. Its distribution is mainland east coast of Queensland and New South Wales. The etymology was given by Goding (1903) as "I have chosen for the name of this genus the aboriginal word meaning 'wife'."

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Head triangular, lateral borders sinuous. Prothorax rising vertically from the base, the dorsum appears to divide into two long anteriorly inclined horns which are enlarged toward the apex rounded on the top (not truncated), the inner angles produced in triangular acuminate spines, the surface reticulated; the posterior process is much shorter than the tegmina and sinuate. Tegmina with two discoidal cells, the second petiolate, furnished with a transverse venule between two ulnar veins, near base. Wings with four apical cells. Legs very slightly flattened (Goding 1903).

Median pronotal process long, narrow and almost straight. Lateral pronotal processes, although highly variable, are thick, diverging, apically enlarged, with an outwardly directed spine on outer side. Segments 1 and 3 of hind tarsi of equal length. Anal vein 2A unusually straight (Day 1999).

Day (1999) provided a comprehensive redescription of the genus.

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. and Day M. F. (2005) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Family Membracidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Membracidae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/membracid/membrac00.htm [accessed: 9.iv.2012]

 

Diagnosis References

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [681–683]

Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [28–29]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)