Genus Mitelloides Evans, 1939

Mitelloides moaensis Evans, type species of Mitelloides Evans.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitelloides Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [46].

  Type species:

   Mitelloides moaensis Evans, 1939 by original designation.

Introduction

This genus of large brown, hump-backed leafhoppers comprises three species found in the far north of Queensland. Unidentified females extend the range of the genus into Papua New Guinea but the identity of the species in New Guinea is unknown. The genus was revised by Stevens (1990).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Diagnosis

The head ventrally is much wider than long and is bounded posteriorly by an overhanging transverse ridge that borders the frontoclypeus medially and extends to the eyes on each side. Anterior to this ridge the frontoclypeus is concave for one third of its length. The crown is vertical and at right angles to the ventral surface and the ocelli, which are on the crown, are closer to the centre line than the eyes on each side. The pronotum is steeply declivous antero-medially and the tegmina are rounded apically and have very small appendices. The hind tibiae are triangular in section and have a row of six spines mounted on protuberant flattened bases along one edge (Evans 1939).

Members of the genus are easily recognised by their large size, protuberant eyes, and distinctive head structure (Stevens 1990).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2005) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Tribe Thymbrini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Tartessinae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/tartessinae/thym00.htm [accessed: 3.ii.2012]

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [46]

Stevens, M.M. 1990. Revision of the genus Mitelloides Evans, with two new species from northern Australia (Homoptera, Cicadellae). Entomologica Scandinavica 21: 281-288 [282–284]

General References

Stevens, M.M. 1990. Revision of the genus Mitelloides Evans, with two new species from northern Australia (Homoptera, Cicadellae). Entomologica Scandinavica 21: 281-288

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