Genus Pogonella Evans, 1966

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pogonella Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [285].

  Type species:

   Centrotypus minutus Goding, 1903 by original designation.

 

Introduction

This genus is common and widespread across Australia and is particularly common in the southeastern parts of the country. The two described species are both small and dark brown with small lateral pronotal processes. Day (1999) stated that there is considerable material of the genus present in collections throughout Australia and a number of undescribed species can be recognised. A species level revision of the genus is needed to clarify the identities and distributions of the Australian species. The genus is endemic to Australia.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Diagnosis

Robust brown or black, sexually dimorphic insects. The pronotum has a pair of lateral processes which are considerably larger in the ♀ than in the ♂. In the ♂, these processes, which are broadly triangular, are almost horizontal and only curved a little backwards and sometimes upwards. In the ♀, they are, in some species, more dorsally directed. There is a central longitudinal ridge on the pronotum which is continuous with the median extension; the latter, which is slightly sinuate and curves downwards apically, extends almost as far as the apices of the folded tegmina. The tegmina are broad and M and Cu1, though proximally closely adjacent to each other, usually retain their separate identity. The only crossvein linking these veins is m–cu3 (Evans 1966).

Small but robust, brown or black, dimorphic. Face unusually short, frontal margin arched. Ocelli further from each other than from eyes and unusually high on face in most species. Median pronotal process well developed, slightly sinuate, extending almost to apex of tegmen. Dorsal carina well developed. Tegmen broad. Crossveins m–cu1 and m–cu2 absent. Appendix narrow (Day 1999).

Day (1999) provided a comprehensive redescription of the genus.

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. and Day M. F. (2005) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Family Membracidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Membracidae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/membracid/membrac00.htm [accessed: 10.iv.2012]

 

Diagnosis References

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [696–698]

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [285]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)