Genus Orinda Kirkaldy, 1907

Orinda lucindae (Kirkaldy), type species of Orinda

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Orinda Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [104].

  Type species:

   Sarnus lucindae Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

Introduction

This endemic genus contains two small brown species with characteristic tegmina from the wet tropics of North Queensland. The hind wings of the type species are rudimentary but those of O. scapularis are well developed and trilobed.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Costal margin of fore wings concave on basal half. Hind wings rudimentary or well developed, trilobed: radius and CuA bifurcate and M, CuP, postcubitus, first and second anal veins simple; two crossveins aligned between second branch of radius and median and between median and first branch of CuA; second branch of CuA and CuP are fused and thickened towards apex of hindwing (Gnezdilov & Fletcher 2010)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. & Gnezdilov, V.M. (2010) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Issidae described from Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/issidae/iss00.htm

Diagnosis References

Gnezdilov, V.M. & Fletcher, M.J. 2010. A review of the Australian genera of the planthopper family Issidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) with description of an unusual new species of Chlamydopteryx Kirkaldy. Zootaxa 2366: 35–45 [41]

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