Subfamily Otiocerinae Muir, 1913

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• Otiocerinae Muir, F. 1917. The Derbidae of the Philippine Islands. Philippine Journal of Science 12: 49-105 [54].

  Type genus:

   Otiocerus Kirby, 1821.
• Otiocerus group Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [30].

  Type genus:

   Otiocerus Kirby, 1821.

Introduction

Muir (1913) defined four groups within the Derbidae based on different genera and this included a group based on Otiocerus but he did not formally name it as Otiocerinae until 1917. He regarded the group as being monophyletic and noted that it included some of the "most fantastically shaped insects of the family". Emeljanov (1995) created a number of new tribes within this subfamily but none of these is represented in Australia. Four tribes are represented in the Australian fauna, and the fauna is probably far richer than is currently recognised.

Diagnosis

Cubital veins not reaching hind margin of tegmen but ending in the extended claval vein; third claval cell open, extending along hind margin to last apical median cell (Muir 1913, of Otiocerus group, Muir 1917)

Jugal margin of hindwings with stridulatory plate; CuA of forewings closed (Emejlanov 1996).

ID Keys

Muir 1913: 30; Muir 1917: 54; Emeljanov 1996: 75–76.

Diagnosis References

Emeljanov, A.F. 1996. On the system and phylogeny of the Family Derbidae (Homoptera, Cicadina). Entomological Review (English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie) 75(2): 70–100 [75–76]

Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 (30)

Muir, F. 1917. The Derbidae of the Philippine Islands. Philippine Journal of Science 12: 49-105 [54]

General References

Emeljanov, A.F. 1995. [On the system and phylogeny of the Family Derbidae (Homoptera, Cicadina)]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 73(4): 783–811 [in Russian]

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