Genus Otinotoides Distant, 1916

Otinotoides sp., adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Otinotoides Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lix. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(17): 313-330 [320].

  Type species:

   Centrotus pallipes Walker, 1870 by original designation.

Introduction

The identities of the four species of this genus recorded in Australia need to be established through a species level revision of the genus. The known distribution for each species is confused by apparent misidentifications in collections.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), New England Tablelands (NET), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Allied to Otinotus Buckt., from which it principally differs by the posterior pronotal process, which is more robust, especially at base, where it has a distinct medial carination on each side; it touches the scutellum and then is distinctly moderately convexly elevated, its apical half roundly deflected, its apex slender, subacute, and almost reaching the tegminal apex (Distant 1916).

Clypeal tip acute. Gena slightly sinuate. Pronotum smooth. Median pronotal process long, slightly sinuate. Lateral pronotal processes narrow, apically acute, directed horizontally. Tegmen coloured in some species. Crossveins m–cu1 and m–cu2 absent (Day 1999).

Day (1999) provided a comprehensive redescription of the genus.

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. and Day M. F. (2005) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Family Membracidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Membracidae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/membracid/membrac00.htm [accessed: 9.iv.2012]

Diagnosis References

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [693–695]

Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lix. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(17): 313-330 [320]

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