Genus Payastylus Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

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Regional Maps

• Payastylus Löcker, B. & Fletcher, M.J. in Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C., Gurr, G.M., Holzinger, W.E. & Löcker, H. 2006. Taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of the Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae). Invertebrate Systematics 20: 59-160 [129].

  Type species:

   Payastylus gekiae Löcker & Fletcher, 2006 by original designation.

Introduction

A genus of three unremarkable small brown species from inland areas of New South Wales and South Australia with a coastal record from Queensland.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Stony Plains (STP)

Diagnosis

Morphology. Body length. ♂ 3.7–4.1 mm, ♀ 4.0–4.7 mm. Head. Vertex produced before eyes by 1/4 to 1/2 of an eye length; caudal border broadly u-shaped. Frons 1.1–1.5× longer than wide; maximum width about centre of frontoclypeal suture; lateral carinae slightly elevated, lateral margins foliaceous, concealing base of antennae; median carina complete. Frontoclypeal suture semicircular, median part not reaching lower margin of antennal scape. Median carina on post- and anteclypeus absent or evanescent; lateral carinae on postclypeus well developed. Thorax. Concavity at costal border of forewing absent; position of icu at CuP distinctly distad of apex of clavus. First tarsomere of hind leg lacking platellae.
Remarks. The following combination of characters is diagnostic for the genus Payastylus: complete median carina on frons, absent or evanescent median carina on the postclypeus and the shape of the genital styles in lateral view.

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J., Löcker, B., Larivière, M.C. and Löcker, H. (2006). Illustrated Key to the Australian Genera of the Planthopper Tribe Gelastocephalini  (Hemiptera: Cixiidae: Fulgoromorpha) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/cixiid/gelastocephalini/gel00.htm

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C., Gurr, G.M., Holzinger, W.E. & Löcker, H. 2006. Taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of the Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae). Invertebrate Systematics 20: 59-160 [129]

History of changes