Tribe Machaerotini Stål, 1858

Museums

Regional Maps

• Machaerotida Stål, C. 1858. Neue systematische Eintheilung der Homopteren. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 19: 233-234 [233].

  Type genus:

   Machaerota Burmeister, 1835.

Introduction

The Machaerotini are immediately recognisable by the posterior prolongation of the scutellum to form a needle-like spine. The world fauna is almost entirely Oriental with extensions north to Japan and SE to New Guinea and northern Australia. Maa (1963) recognised 6 genera containing 51 species with the Australian fauna comprising two species in the species-rich Oriental genus Machaerota Burmeister.

Diagnosis

Head somewhat broader than anterier end of pronotum. Supra-antennal triangle never clearly defined. Pronotum with 4 distinct calli. Posterior portion of scutellum more or less elevated, always sharply divided into dorsal (sulcus area) and lateral surfaces and with a free spine-like process. Mesonotal process, pointed, strongly produced caudad. Tegmen long, narrow, always transparent, almost always smooth, venation uniform, never strongly reticulate. Hind tibia with 1 or no lateral spine (Maa 1963).

Diagnosis References

Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [7]

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