Genus Rigula Day, 1999
Compiler and date details
11 April 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Rigula Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [706].
Type species:
Rigula calperum Day, 1999 by original designation.
Introduction
This endemic genus contains four species each isolated geographically from the others. Three of them were described as new by Day (1999) and the other, from the Northern Territory, listed as undescribed in that same work. The name is derived from an Aboriginal tribal name.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), Riverina (RIV), Wet Tropics (WT)
Diagnosis
Readily distinguished by the broad, markedly ridged lateral pronotal processes and the median pronotal process vertically enlarged posteriorly. Setae on tegmen surface. Crossveins between M1 and M2 (Day 1999).
Day (1999) also provided a comprehensive description 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: 11.iv.2012]
Diagnosis References
Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [706–712]
History of changes
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16-May-2012 | 16-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
26-Apr-2012 | 26-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |