Tribe Macroceratogoniini Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Macroceratogoniini Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [323].

  Type genus:

   Macroceratogonia Kirkaldy, 1906.

Introduction

This tribe was created for the single species Macroceratogonia aurea Kirkaldy, affinities of which are still uncertain. Kirkaldy (1906) described it in the Tettigoniidae (= Cicadellinae) but Evans (1947) placed it in the Nirvaninae. Dietrich (2004) placed the Macroceratogoniini as a tribe of the Coelidiinae based on the presence of setigerous tubercles on the pronotum and presence of a median dorsal tooth with a pair of basolateral projections on the second valvulae of the ovipositor in both groups but (Dietrich pers. comm. 2011) considers that it may belong with the Neocoelidiinae, a subfamily not currently represented in the Australian fauna. Evans (1966) transferred Petalocephala aurescens Distant, from New Caledonia, into the genus Macroceratogonia and Evans (1974) synonymised it with M. aurea so the tribe remains monobasic.

Diagnosis

The vertex is subhorizontal, flat, subquadrangularly produced before the eyes, wider apically than at the base; ocelli on the vertex anterior to the apical margin of the eyes. Antennal seta enormously long (Kirkaldy 1906).

ID Keys

Dietrich 2005: 511

Fletcher, M.J. (2009 and updates). Key to the leafhoppers and treehoppers of Australia and neighbouring areas (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/index.html

Diagnosis References

Dietrich, C.H. 2005. Keys to the families of Cicadomorpha and subfamilies and tribes of Cicadellidae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Florida Entomologist 88(4): 502–517 [511–514]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [323]

General References

Dietrich, C.H. 2004. Phylogeny of the leafhopper subfamily Evacanthinae with a review of Neotropical species and notes on related groups (Hemiptera: Membracoidea: Cicadellidae). Systematic Entomology 29: 455–487 [478]

Evans, J.W. 1947. A natural classification of leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera) Part 3. Jassidae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 98(6): 105-271 [177]

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [150]

Evans, J.W. 1974. New Caledonian leafhoppers and the systematic position of Kosmiopelix Kirkaldy and Euacanthella Evans (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 16(2-3): 165-175 [169]

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