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Genus Motschulskyia Kirkaldy, 1905


Compiler and date details

20 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher

Introduction

This is a small Oriental and eastern Palaearctic genus with a reasonably complex taxonomic history. It has been divided into two subgenera, each with two species. One species of the subgenus Togaritettix Matsumura is present in Australia and is quite distinctive within the Australian fauna due to its dorsal longitudinal dark band which expands in width from the front of the head to the base of the tegmina and then continuing with varying width to the apex of the tegmina.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

W Pakistan.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Forme allongé et svelte des Typhlocyba, mais chaperon sensiblement avancé en triangle ou en cône. Tête triangulaire, fortement découpée en arrière; ocelles nulles; yeux allongés, nullement saillants, se présentant conique quand on voit d'en haut; antennes sétacées, ne devançant pas le corselet. Celui-ci transversal, un peu atténué en avant, de la largeur de la tête en arrière, angles arrondis, mésonotum trapézoïdal, distinctement séparé de l'écusson qui est triangulaire. Hémélytres luisantes, un peu transparentes de consistance assez tendre dans toute leur longueur et colorées uniformément jusqu'a l'extrémité, nervures pas visibles. Pattes grèles, mais pas très-longues (Motschulsky 1863, as Conometopus Motsch.).

 

Details of nominate subgenus, not present in Australia

Motschulskyia Kirkaldy, 1905
Kirkaldy, G.W. 1905. Neue und wenig bekannte Hemiptera. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 24: 266-268 [266] [replacement name; for Conometopus Motschulsky].

Conometopus Motschulsky, 1863
Motschulsky, V. von 1863. Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'île Ceylan. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 36(3): 1-153 [103] [junior homonym; of Conometopus Blanchard 1851 (Orthoptera) and Conometopus Fieber 1858 (Hemiptera: Miridae)].
Type species: Conometopus inspiratus Motschulsky, 1863 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement
Dworakowska, I. 1971. On some genera of the Tribe Dikraneurini (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques 19: 579-586 [579]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019 26-Apr-2012 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)