Subgenus Motschulskyia (Togaritettix) Matsumura, 1931

Motschulskyia (Togaritettix) serrata (Matsumura), type species of Motschulskyia (Togaritettix) Matsumura.

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• Togaritettix Matsumura, S. 1931. A revision of the Palaearctic and Oriental typhlocybid — genera, with descriptions of new species and new genera. Insecta Matsumurana 6: 55-91 [71].

  Type species:

   Togaritettix serratus Matsumura, 1931 by original designation.
• Mahmoodiana Ahmed, M. & Waheed, A. 1971. Two new genera of Typhlocybinae (Homoptera : Cicadellidae) feeding on rose (Rosa indica), in West Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research 14: 116-117 [116].

  Type species:

   Mahmoodiana acuta Ahmed & Waheed, 1971 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sohi, A.S. & Dworakowska, I. 1984. A review of Indian Typhlocybinae (Homoptera : Cicadellidae) from India. Oriental Insects 17: 159-213 [166] (synonymy of Mahmoodiana)

Introduction

This subgenus is distributed across the Oriental and eastern Palaearctic regions with one of its two species also occurring in northern Australia. It is likely to have been introduced to Australia.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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

Venation nearly similar to Alebroides Mats., but the vertex flat, sharp conically produced and longer than the pronotum, having no ocelli, antennae not longer than the head, pronotum and scutellum combined; the third sector to the hind wing long stalked (Matsumura 1931).

The subgenus Togaritettix Mats. differs from Motschulskyia s. str. chiefly by a contrasting sclerotisation of pygophore side making impression of consisting of separate sclerotised plates. Thus the flattened pygophore side shows very serious differences in comparison with the same of Motschulskyia s. str.. Subgenital plates in subgenus Togaritettix fused by their bases like in Motschulskyia s. str. but anterior margin of the last abdominal sternite almost straight, not incised as in Motschulskyia s. str.. Connective almost cylindrical and compressed laterall at both ends (Dworakowska 1971).

Diagnosis References

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]

Matsumura, S. 1931. A revision of the Palaearctic and Oriental typhlocybid — genera, with descriptions of new species and new genera. Insecta Matsumurana 6: 55-91 [71]

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