Tribe Occinirvanini Evans, 1966

Museums

Regional Maps

• Occinirvana Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [151].

  Type genus:

   Occinirvana Evans, 1942.

Introduction

The only species of Occinirvanini is Occinirvana eborea (Evans) from Casuarinaceae in Perth, Western Australia. It can be distinguished from other Australian leafhoppers by the position of the ocelli and the antennal bases, both of which are closer to the apex of the head than they are to the eyes. Evans (1942) placed the genus in the Nirvaninae and Evans (1966) created the tribe Occinirvanini for it. The tribe was transferred to the Deltocephalinae by Dietrich (2004).

Diagnosis

The principal features distinguishing insects in this tribe are the position of the antennae, the antennal ledges and the ocelli, all of which are unusually situated, being nearer to the apex of the head than to the eyes (Evans 1966).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2009 and updates). Key to the leafhoppers and treehoppers of Australia and neighbouring areas (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/index.html

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [151]

General References

Dietrich, C.H. 2004. Phylogeny of the leafhopper subfamily Evacanthinae with a review of Neotropical species and notes on related groups (Hemiptera: Membracoidea: Cicadellidae). Systematic Entomology 29: 455–487 [479]

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [156]

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [151]

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