Genus Pogonoscopus China, 1924

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• Pogonoscopus China, W.E. 1924. A new genus of Bythoscopinae (Jassidae, Homoptera) from West Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 14: 529-531 [529].

  Type species:

   Pogonoscopus myrmex China, 1924 by original designation.

 

Introduction

This genus of two species is distributed in SW Western Australia, the SE corner of South Australia and adjacent parts of western Victoria. Both species occur on both sides of the continent. The species have the distinctive wing markings of eurymeline genera such as Eurymela or Eurymeloides although they are faded brown in colour rather than black.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Diagnosis

Crown with the eyes distinctly narrower than the pronotum at the base, twice as long at the eyes as in the middle; face long, nearly one fifth longer than the width between the anterior margins of the eyes, moderately convex, with a slight depression around and below each ocellus; ocelli placed in a line with the middle of the eyes as seen from below and slightly nearer to each other than to the eyes; antennal scrobes shallow, antennal bristles short; clypeus moderately broad, lateral margins of genae very feebly sinuate, almost straight; rostrum extending to the third apparent abdominal ventrite. Pronotum rather more than twice as wide at the base as long in the middle, its lateral margins not carinate and converging anteriorly so that they form almost a continuous curve with the rounded anterior margin; posterior margin rather broadly emarginate above the scutellum, disc broadly convex, very faintly transversely rugose but not striate with two transverse smooth ares below the eyes. Scutellum slight wider at the base than along the lateral margin. Tegmina moderately coriaceous, venation somewhat variable towards the apex but with only two anteapical cells and the costal area consequently very wide towards the apex of the tegmen; appendix present. Tibiae much less distinctly triangular than is usual in the Jassidae, the angles more or less rounded. Tibial spines very feebly developed (China 1924).

 

ID Keys

Evans 1966: 75

 

Diagnosis References

China, W.E. 1924. A new genus of Bythoscopinae (Jassidae, Homoptera) from West Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 14: 529-531 [529–530]

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [75]

 

History of changes

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