Genus Sikaiana Distant, 1907

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Regional Maps

• Sikaiana Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [398].

  Type species:

   Sikaiana hyalinata Distant, 1907 by original designation.
• Iguvium Distant, W.L. 1917. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A. Vol. VI, No vii — Rhynchota, Part II: Suborder Homoptera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 17: 273-322 [287].

  Type species:

   Iguvium albomaculatum Distant, 1917 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Muir, F. 1918. Notes on the Derbidae in the British Museum collection. I. Zoraidinae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 54: 173-177 [176] (synonymy of Iguvium)

Introduction

This mainly Oriental genus has two species described by Distant (1907) from North Queensland. In addition to these two and a number of Oriental species, there are species in Africa and in Fiji.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Head (including eyes) very much narrower than pronotum; vertex narrow, triangular, widened posteriorly, its apex a little prominent; face extremely narrow and linear, appearing as a line only between the eyes; clypeus about half the length of face, centrally and laterally carinate; antennae inserted beneath eyes, very robust, second joint longer than third; pronotum short, very broadly transverse, very strongly centrally carinate; mesonotum tricarinate; legs moderately long and slender; tegmina broadened towards middle, a little convexly narrowed to apex which is rounded, costal membrane with some indistinct transverse veins, radial area short, discoidal areas four, apical areas six, a series of transverse veins round apical margin; wings much less than half the length of tegmina, discoidal areas long and narrow, a transverse vein near middle of anal area; apical areas four (Distant 1907).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [398–399]

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