Genus Stenocranus Fieber, 1866

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• Stenocranus Fieber, F.X. 1866. Grundzüge zur generischen Theilung der Delphacini. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 16: 517-534 [519].

  Type species:

   Fulgora minuta Fabricius, 1787 (as Stenocranus minutus) by subsequent designation, see Oshanin, V.T. 1912. Katalog der paläarktischen Hemipteren (Heteroptera, Homoptera — Auchenorhyncha und Psylloideae). Berlin : R. Friedländer and Sohn pp. 1-187. [118].

Introduction

This genus is probably not represented in the Australian fauna since the single Australian species placed in it probably belongs elsewhere, possibly in its own genus. Unlike other Fieber (1866) genera however, Stenocranus was included by Fennah (1965) in his key to Australian genera.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Fennah (1965) keyed Stenocranus with the following features: post-tibial spur tectiform with teeth on margin; frons with median carina simple, or forked at base; basal segment of hind tarsus without teeth laterally; post-tibial spur with 13 teeth or more; head with eyes not broader than pronotum; vertex longer than broad at base; second antennal segment three times as long as first.

ID Keys

Fennah 1965: 4

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [4–5]

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