Genus Rhinodictya Kirkaldy, 1906

Rhinodictya quaesitrix Kirkaldy, type species of Rhinodictya Kirkaldy.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhinodictya Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [416].

  Type species:

   Rhinodictya quaesitrix Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

Introduction

This genus contains a handful of species from the western Pacific including Fiji, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. The type species, which is the only species of the genus in Australia, is from the wet tropics and neighbouring Chillagoe regions of North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Head slightly ascending. Vertex about as long as pronotum and scutellum together, angularly emarginate at base, a lateral keel on each side and a median. Frons with a lateral keel on each side and a median, also a curved submedian keel on each side, becoming obsolete on the basal half. Pronotum tricarinate, angularly rounded anteriorly, deeply rectangularly emarginate posteriorly. Scutellum short, tricarinate, the lateral keels rounded, meeting anteriorly. Costa arched, costal cell with about 18 transverse veins; subcostal cell present, stigma absent. Apical fourth of tegmina reticulate, no definite subapical line. Posterior tibiae with three spines (Kirkaldy 1906).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2001) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Tropiduchidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/tropid/tropid00.htm

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [416–417]

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