Genus Pectinariophyes Kirkaldy, 1906

Pectinariophyes stalii (Spångberg), type species of Pectinariophyes Kirkaldy.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pectinariophyes Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [386].

  Type species:

   Pectinariophyes pectinaria Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.
• Xenaias Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchota, Homoptera Appendix. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 6: 1-248 [198].

  Type species:

   Xenaias notandus Distant, 1916 by original designation.
• Polytrichophyes Schmidt, E. 1919. Neue Gattungen und Arten der Subfamilie Machaerotinae Stal. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Cercopiden (Rhynchota Homoptera). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 79: 366-373 [366].

  Type species:

   Polychaetophyes aequalior Kirkaldy, 1906 by original designation.
• Neurohindola Lallemand, V. 1951. Cinquième note sur les Cercopides. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 87: 82-89 [87].

  Type species:

   Carystus reticulatus Spangberg, 1877 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [43-44] (synonymy of Xenaias, Polytrichophyes and Neurohindola)

Introduction

Maa (1963) regarded this genus as being a weak assemblage of species with four main components, one of which, the reticulata species group is found in lowland areas of the Australian and Papuan subregions. The other groups are found in Sri Lanka / Philippines (submontane and lowland), the Malaysian subregion (submontane) and the South African subregion (submontane). There are three species in the reticulata group, two of which are Australian and the third, represented by a single female specimen from New Guinea, may be a component of the Australian P. stalii (Spångberg).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Coolgardie (COO), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mulga Lands (ML), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Yalgoo (YAL)

Diagnosis

Closely allied to Polychaetophyes, but with the posterior margin of the head raised, pronotum much less declivous, also much longer in proportion to the head. Ocelli farther apart, frons more swollen (Kirkaldy 1906).

Body of medium to rather large size, rather slender. Postclypeus almost evenly convex in both sexes, seldom with a short weak keel or fovea near top. Crown almost plane or depressed, irregularly rugose; supra-antennal triangle more or less definable, usually well visible in vertical view of crown. Pronotum strongly punctate or with undulating and intersecting rugae, never transversely striate. Scutellum low, wealy convex at disc. Tegmen subhyaline (rarely heavily sclerotised), strongly punctate throughout; veins usually weak; venation rather variable in details, R often branched before middle, Rs and M apically gently curved, never suddenly bent analward; clavus usually with 2 longitudinal and 1 or more crossveins; corial appendix never noticeably larger than claval appendix and never more than 1/3 as long as apical corial margin; apical cells not or hardly depressed. Hind tibia with 2 lateral spines, the 1st one often much smaller than any apical tibial spine (Maa 1963).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2001) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the subfamily Machaerotinae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/cercopid/machaero/mach00.htm [accessed 19.iv.2012]

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [386]

Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [43]

General References

Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [44]

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