Genus Ophiuchus Distant, 1918

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• Ophiuchus Distant, W.L. 1918. Rhynchota. Homoptera: Appendix. Heteroptera: Addenda. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 7(i-viii): 1-210 [33].

  Type species:

   Ophiuchus princeps Distant, 1918 by original designation.

Introduction

This small oriental genus is distributed between India and the Philippines with a single endemic species in far North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Diagnosis

Vertex of head spatulate, about as long as pronotum and scutellum together, the lateral margins straight for a short distance in front of eyes and then obliquely narrowed to apex, which is subacute; face somewhat flattened, projecting considerably in front of eyes, narrowed towards clypeus; pronotum transverse, moderately convex, anterior and posterior margins straight, lateral margins a little oblique; scutellum broader at base than long, subtriangular (Distant 1918).

ID Keys

Evans 1966: 151–152

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1918. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Homoptera: Appendix, Heteroptera: Appendix). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 7 viii 210 pp. [33–34]

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [151–152]

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