Genus Nephotettix Matsumura, 1902

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• Nephotettix Matsumura, S. 1902. Monographie der Jassinen Japans. Természetrajzi Füzetek 25: 353-404 [356].

  Type species:

   Selenocephalus cincticeps Uhler, 1896 by subsequent designation, see Distant, W.L. 1908. Rhynchota. — Vol. IV. Homoptera and Appendix. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 4: 1-501 [359].

Introduction

These highly distinctive leafhoppers are distributed from Africa through Asia to Australia where three species are recorded. They are all bright green with various black markings. Some species are well known as pests of rice.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN) ; NT, Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Colour always opaque green with black markings on head, face, pronotum, tegmen and other parts of the body showing variable degrees of sexual dimorphism, the females with reduced black markings. Vertex somewhat flat with transverse discal furrow, not rounded at meeting line with frons but comparatively sharply angled; clypeus slightly narrowed towards apex. Wing venation characteristic of Euscelinae, having four apical, three anteapical and two discal cells in tegmen, clavus with two claval veins, marginal vein complete in hind wing, first cubitus bifurcate and vannal veins 1 and 2 separate. Pygofers, subgenital plates, parameres, basal plate and anal tube similar to those of Exitianus. Nephotettix has aedeagus with lateral paraphyses and, in most species, on dorsal surface elongate sclerotised carinae with variable numbers of spines directed towards apex, these structures are lacking in Exitianus. (Ghauri 1971).

Diagnosis References

Ghauri, M.S.K. 1971. Revision of the genus Nephotettix Matsumura (Homoptera : Cicadellidae : Euscelidae) based on the type material. Bulletin of Entomological Research 60: 481-512 [483–484]

General References

Ghauri, M.S.K. 1971. Revision of the genus Nephotettix Matsumura (Homoptera : Cicadellidae : Euscelidae) based on the type material. Bulletin of Entomological Research 60: 481-512 [482]

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