Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

<i>Stenogiffardia parvula</i> (Kirkaldy), type species of <i>Stenogiffardia</i> Evans.

Stenogiffardia parvula (Kirkaldy), type species of Stenogiffardia Evans.

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Genus Stenogiffardia Evans, 1977


Compiler and date details

24 October 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher

29 June 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Introduction

The only Australian species in this genus is distinctive in the narrow prolongation of the head. It is known in a brachypterous and a macropterous form from widely scattered locations in eastern and western Australia. Zahniser (2012) transferred two South African and one Sri Lankan species into the genus as well.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia


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IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

The head is roundly and narrowly produced and may be upwardly curved apically and ventrally carinate. On the face, the wide maxillary plates are evenly rounded externally. The lateral sutures of the frontoclypeus diverge posteriorly and the antennal ledges are obscure. The antennae do not extend as far as the sides of the head. The ocelli are on the sides of the head adjacent to the lateral frontal sutures and close to the eyes. The pronotum, laterally, widely separates the eyes from the bases of the tegmina. The tegmina may be fully developed or reduced to small pads. In forms with fully developed tegmina M1+2 proximally of its junction with Rs is unusually long and the appendix continues around the apex of the tegmen to the costal margin. The hind tibiae are strongly spinose (Evans 1977).

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019 13-Aug-2013 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 30-Nov-2012 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 24-Oct-2012 MOVED
05-Dec-2019 16-May-2012 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 24-Jun-2011 MOVED
05-Dec-2019 24-Jun-2011 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)