Tribe Paralimnini Distant, 1908

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paralimnusaria Distant, W.L. 1908. Rhynchota. — Vol. IV. Homoptera and Appendix. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 4: 1-501 [395].

  Type genus:

   Paralimnus Matsumura, 1902.

Introduction

This tribe was redefined by Zahniser & Dietrich (2013) who recognised two subtribes only one of which, the Paralimnina, occurs in Australia. Four Australian genera are currently placed in the tribe — Mayawa Fletcher with six species, Soractellus Evans with two species (and at least four undescribed) and the monotypic genera Soracte Kirkaldy and Micrelloides Evans. There are also three additional genera known to occur in Australia, two of which are undescribed.

Diagnosis

Vertex somewhat subacutely produced in front of eyes, about or nearly twice as broad between the eyes as long; ocelli on the anterior margin very near the eyes (Distant 1908).

"Paralimnini are small to medium sized leafhoppers. They can be identified by the combination of the following characters: clypellus tapering apically or parallel-sided, lorum narrower than clypellus at base; connective with anterior arms closely appressed, articulated with aedeagus; female first valvula sculpturing imbricate or rarely maculose or granulose. The tribe is very similar morphologically to the closely related Deltocephalini, from which it can be distinguished by the articulation between the connective and aedeagus (fused in Deltocephalini)." (Zahniser & Dietrich 2013).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2009 and updates). Key to the leafhoppers and treehoppers of Australia and neighbouring areas (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/index.html

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1908. Rhynchota. — Vol. IV. Homoptera and Appendix. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 4: 1-501 [395]

Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. 2013. A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 45: 1–211 [132]

General References

Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. 2013. A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 45: 1–211 [132]

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