Subfamily Poiocerinae Haupt, 1929

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• Poiocerinae Haupt, H. 1929. Neueinteilung der Homoptera-Cicadina nach phylogenetisch zu wertenden Merkmalen. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 58: 173-286 [200].

  Type genus:

   Poiocera de Laporte, 1832.

Introduction

This subfamily has its best representation in the Americas; one subtribe occurs in the Australasian and eastern Oriental regions, with four genera. Until recently, only one species of this subfamily was known from Australia, Desudaboides fuscomaculata Musgrave. Recent work by the compiler has determined that the genus Birdantis Stål, a genus well represented in New Guinea, is also present in northern Australia. Jerome Constant (RBINS, Belgium) has added new species of Desudaboides Musgrave to the Australian fauna (Constant 2010) and has also determined that the Birdantis species in northern Australia are not species found in New Guinea but are undescribed. Descriptions of these are currently in press.

Diagnosis

Tête particulièrement large; sans carène ou épine au devant des yeux; bord antérieure du front et l'antérieure du vertex séparés par une rainure; vertex en gouttière, son bord antérieur est ordinairement droit, plus rarement concave ou convexe. Front court, jamais plus long que large. Sur les élytres, suivant les genres, le clavus peut être ouvert ou fermé. Birdantis est un genre de transition, la tête est large, mais le front a une tendance à former un prolongement, son bord supérieur surplombe fréquemment le bord antérieur du vertex (Lallemand 1963).

ID Keys

Lallemand 1963: 5

Diagnosis References

Lallemand, V. 1963. Revision des Fulgoridae (Homoptera). Deuxième partie. Faunes Asiatique et Australienne. Memoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 2nd Series 75: 1-99 [7]

General References

Constant, J. 2010. Review of the Australian genus Desudaboides Musgrave with descriptions of four new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae). Zootaxa (2351): 39–48

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