Genus Platyeurymela Evans, 1933

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• Platyeurymela Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [78].

  Type species:

   Eurymela semifascia Walker, 1851 by original designation.

 

Introduction

This monotypic genus is found around the SE coastal regions and adjacent ranges from Ebor, near Dorrigo, New South Wales to Launceston in Tasmania. Evans (1933) also records it from South Australia but provides no details of localities.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM)

Diagnosis

Insects comprised in this genus may at once be recognised by being almost oval in outline when viewed from above and not wedge shaped like those of related genera. The head is globosely convex. The tegmina, which have their venation reticulate apically, are not strongly tectiform but have the clavus more or less on a plane with the pronotum. The hind tibiae have one spur, and the front femora five or six pairs of very small spurs on the inner edge (Evans 1933).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2005) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Tribe Eurymelini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/eurymelinae/eury00.html

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [78]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)