Genus Myrmecophryne Kirkaldy, 1906
Myrmecophryne formiceticola Kirkaldy, type species of Myrmecophryne Kirkaldy.
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Genus Myrmecophryne Kirkaldy, 1906
Compiler and date details
22 March 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher.
- Myrmecophryne Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [461].
Type species:
Myrmecophryne formiceticola Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.
Introduction
The only species of this genus was described from the nest of an ant in sandhills in SE Queensland but has subsequently also been found in the wet tropics of North Queensland and at Darwin, Northern Territory.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NT, Qld: Darwin Coastal (DAC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Diagnosis
Oval. Vertex transverse, declivous; rounded in front, as viewed dorsally (eyes forming part of the curve), but actually slightly emarginate. Frons short, laterally rounded, very declivous to vertex, slightly convex. Clypeus little longer than broad, parallel-sided; genae rather long. Pronotum transverse, lateral margins rather short, not carinate. Posterior tibiae flattened, rather elongate. Tegmina broad, laterally rounded, venation rather obscure (Kirkaldy 1906).
Diagnosis References
Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [461–462]
History of changes
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| 22-Mar-2012 | 22-Mar-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 22-Mar-2012 | ADDED |