Genus Notuchus Fennah, 1969

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Regional Maps

• Notuchus Fennah, R.G. 1969. Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. Pacific Insects Monographs 21: 1-116 [32].

  Type species:

   Notuchus risioides Fennah, 1969 by original designation.

Introduction

A genus of cryptic, strongly brachypterous planthoppers found in moss or berlesate samples in rainforest, sometimes in mountainous areas. Fennah (1969) compared them to the South African brachypterous dictyopharid genus Risius and even the moss bugs, family Peloridiidae, which are found in moss beds at the tops of mountains.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Diagnosis

This genus is most clearly distinguished from other asiracine genera by the brachypterous tegmina, the sublateral carinae of the frons, the horizontally extending lateral lobes of the pronotum and the presence of an impression in each lateral lobe and in each compartment of the median disc of the pronotum. (Donaldson 1979)

ID Keys

Donaldson 1988: 133

Diagnosis References

Donaldson, J.F. 1979. Revision of the genus Notuchus (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea, Delphacidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 18(2): 181-186 [181]

Donaldson, J.F. 1988. Further studies on Asiracinae (Homoptera: Delphacidae) in Australia and New Caledonia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 27: 133-141 [133]

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