Genus Neovulturnus Evans, 1937

Museums

Regional Maps

• Neovulturnus Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [150].

  Type species:

   Vulturnus vanduzeei Kirkaldy, 1907 by original designation.

 

Introduction

An endemic genus currently with eight recognised species (plus a nomen nudum) distributed along the eastern parts of New South Wales and Queensland. The species are all beautifully filigreed, almost of an enamelled appearance, with the vertex spatulate but separated from the face by a thickened rim, usually with a number of transverse grooves.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

The head is evenly rounded apically, the vertex and posterior third of the frons, which constitutes the crown not being produced, and the labium is short. The hind margin of the frons may be distinct or indistinct. The pronotum is wide laterally and the propleurae separate the eyes from the bases of the tegmina. The tegmina have in addition to a wide appendix, a supplementary appendix, consisting of the two cells that lie against the hind apical margin of the tegmen. This supplementary appendix is not pigmented and causes an irregularity in the apical margins of the tegmina. The legs are flattened and the apices of the hind femora rest just behind the eyes. When at rest the hind femora pass between the middle femora and the thorax. The hind tibiae are armed with four rows of closely set spines and the male genitalia have broad subgenital plates and short parameres (Evans 1937).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2008) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Tribe Penthimiini occurring in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/penthimiini/penth00.htm

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [150–151]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		01-Jun-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)