Genus Maeniana Metcalf, 1952

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• Maeniana Metcalf, Z.P. 1952. New names in the Homoptera. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 42: 226-231 [228] [replacement name].

  Type species:

   Maeniana hirsuta Jacobi, 1928 by original designation.
• Maenia Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [6] [junior homonym; of Maenia Dalton, 1880].

  Type species:

   Maenia hirsuta Jacobi, 1928 by original designation.

 

Introduction

This genus comprises two species from the NW coastal areas of Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Northern Kimberley (NK)

Diagnosis

Pro- und Mesonotum zusammen wesentlich breiter als lang; Pronotum in der Mitte stark eingedrückt, nahe dem Vorderrande und fast parallel mit ihm ein scharfer Bogenkiel, der seitlich bis hinter die Augen reicht. Die Seitenkiele des Mesonotums endigen am Vorderrande. Die Fühler überragen die Seitenecken der Stirn, aber nicht die Augen. Schnabel die Hinterhüften kaum erreichend. Deckflügel parallelseitig. Flügel weit schmäler als jene, ihr Anallappen verkümmert, ohne Gabelader. (Jacobi 1928)

The most relevant diagnostic characters to recognize the genus Maeniana are these of the male genitalia (based on the male holotype of M. hirsuta (Jacobi)): (1) posterior margin of the pygofer with elongate laterodorsal process projecting posteriorly; (2) gonostyli not or very shortly fused basally; (3) laterodorsal part of the gonostyli elongate and laminate, without spine or hook, and bearing spoonshaped process apically (Constant 2018).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2000). Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Eurybrachidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/eurybrachidae/eurygen00.htm

 

Diagnosis References

Constant, J. 2018. Revision of the Eurybrachidae XIV. The Australian genera Olonia Stål, 1862 and Stalobrachys gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). European Journal of Taxonomy 486: 1–97 [88]

Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [6]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Dec-2018	EURYBRACHIDAE Stål, 1862	19-Dec-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
30-Nov-2010		30-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)