Genus Paradaksha Distant, 1910

Paradaksha meeki Distant, type species of Paradaksha.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paradaksha Distant, W.L. 1910. Rhynchota Malayana. Part III. Records of the Indian Museum 5: 313-338 [327].

  Type species:

   Paradaksha meeki Distant, 1910 by original designation.

Introduction

A small genus of three species in New Guinea, one of which extends to the Solomon Islands and into far North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Head short, vertex rounded into frons which is roundly conically produced and obscurely tricarinate. Pronotum short. Tegmen triangular with apical margin straight between rounded apical angle and sutural angle which is produced dorsally to acute point. Costal cell wider than costal membrane. Vein Cu branched at about midlength, anterior branch short meeting M3+4 to form strong angled crossvein. Subapical lines absent. Hind tibia with one spine on external margin (Fletcher 1988).

Vertex shorter than pronotum. Frons 3 carinae not strongly developed, stronger in upper half, laterals may be less prominent than median. Pronotum post ocular eminence a shallow ridge extending lengthwise to near ventral margin of pleural segment. Tegmen sutural/apical apex extended, sometimes acute but not drawn out much, angle sharp or narrowly rounded; without markings, or with variable black round or dashlike spots (Medler 2001).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2005). Illustrated key to the genera of the family Flatidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/flatid/flat00.htm

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 1988. The Australian genera of Flatidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). General and Applied Entomology 20: 9-32 [14]

Medler, J.T. 2001. Flatidae of New Guinea and adjacent areas (Homoptera: Flatidae). Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 8: 1-117 [80]

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