Genus Nisia Melichar, 1903

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nisia Melichar, L. 1903. Homopteren-Fauna von Ceylon. Berlin: Felix L. Dames. 248 pp. [53].

  Type species:

   Meenoplus atrovenosus Lethierry, 1888 by monotypy.

Introduction

Nisia is distributed across the tropics from Africa to the Pacific. There are two described species in Australia with at least one additional undescribed species known. The two described species are recorded in Queensland but specimens of the genus are also known from the Northern Territory and New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC)

Diagnosis

The two Australian genera are easily distinguished by the front of the head. In Nisia there is no median carina although a vague indication of one may be discernible at the very base. In Phaconeura, there is a distinct median carina throughout most of the length of the frons.

ID Keys

Woodward 1957: 58
http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/meenoplidae/meen0.htm

Diagnosis References

Woodward, T.E. 1957. Studies on Queensland Hemiptera. Part II. Meenoplidae (Fulgoroidea). University of Queensland Papers, Department of Entomology 1(4): 57-70 [58]

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