Genus Pediopsis Burmeister, 1838

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• Pediopsis Burmeister, H.C.C. 1838. Rhynchota. No. 1. Genera Insectorum 1: pls 10, 11, 17 20 [11] [first introduced as a subgenus of Bythoscopus Germar, 1833].

  Type species:

   Jassus tiliae Germar, 1831 by subsequent designation, see Kirkaldy, G.W. 1903. On the nomenclature of the genera of the Rhynchota; Heteroptera and Auchenorryhnchous Homoptera. The Entomologist 36(483): 213-216, 230-233 [214].

Introduction

Hamilton (1980) considers Pediopsis possibly to be an aggregate of a number of related genera although he also considered the possibility that the features found in the genus are highly variable. Clarification of this is dependent on a better understanding of the Australian fauna which comprises the bulk of the genus. Hamilton (1980) also notes that most Australian species are probably Pediopsis and this is the subject of current research.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Warren (WAR)

Diagnosis

Body form short and stout or typical for Macropsinae. Face as in Macropsis Lewis; head either narrower than pronotum or same width. Pronotum slightly to distinctly declivous, striations weakly oblique. Tegmina with three preapical cells; veins may be spotted with white. Hind tibial macrosetae usually invariably 7, in some species 7–8 (non-Australian species 8 or 9). Male pygofer unarmed, truncate or produced to blunt apex; dorsal connectives of many different shapes, always armed with one or more processes from dorsal end which are hook-shaped, beak-shaped or finger-like but not spatulate; dorsal connectives articulating against upper margins of pygofers, which are often produced into long processes (Hamilton 1980).

ID Keys

Hamilton 1980: 881–884

Diagnosis References

Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [902–903]

General References

Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [902]

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