Genus Pyrrhyllis Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Pyrrhyllis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [420].

  Type species:

   Pyrrhyllis pyrrhyllis Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

Introduction

Pyrrhyllis contains two species, one described from Cairns and the other from Tasmania (with no further locality details). Both species have two distinctive white transverse bands on the face.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; Qld, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

This genus is characterised by a very short vertex with the anterior margin evenly convex and by two distinct pale bands traversing the face.

Vertex broader than long (4:1), anterior margin shallowly convex, posterior margin shallowly excavate, disk declivous, depressed inside anterior margin, medially carinate except at apex, frons convex, as long in middle line as broad, median carina fine, absent at base, lateral margins gradually diverging to below level of antennae, foliately expanded laterally. Clypeus short, laterally carinate, median carina absent, rostrum with apical joint shorter than subapical, antennae sunk in a slight depression, but not roofed over above, subglobose, ocelli just touching eyes; eyes not overlapping pronotum so as almost to cover it, pronotum moderately short, lateral margin short, no carina between eye and tegula, ventral margins of lateral pronotal fields subangulately rounded and oblique; median carina one-third length of lateral discal carinae, latter straight or convex; mesonotum longer than vertex and pronotum together, distinctly tricarinate, tegula not carinate, pro-tibiae shorter than femora with trochanters, post-tibiae with a single spine basad of middle. Tegmina with Sc+R forking distad of fork of Cu1, Cs with two branches, R with two, M1 forked at level of nodal transverse line, clavus terminating at middle of tegmen. (Fennah 1950)

ID Keys

Fennah 1950: 47

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [54]

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