Genus Stobaera Stål, 1859

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• Stobaera Stål, C. 1859. Novae quaedem Fulgorinorum formae speciesque insigniores. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 3: 313-327 [327].

  Type species:

   Delphax concinna Stål, 1854 by monotypy.
• Goniolcium Fowler, W.W. 1905. Order Rhynchota. Suborder Hemiptera-Homoptera. (Continued). Biologia Centrali-Americana 1: 125-139 [132].

  Type species:

   Goniolcium granulosum Fowler, 1905 by subsequent designation, see Muir, F. 1915. A contribution towards the taxonomy of the Delphacidae. The Canadian Entomologist 47: 261-270 [264].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Van Duzee, E.P. 1909. Observations on some Hemiptera taken in Florida in the spring of 1908. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 9: 149-230 [200]

Introduction

This Nearctic / Central American genus was added to the Australian fauna through the introduction of S. concinna as a biological control agent against parthenium weed in Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

"Caput thorace nonnihil angustius, truncatum; vertice transverso; fronte elongata, subparallela, marginibus carinatis, medio carina percurrente, basi ipsa furcata instructa; genis obliquis, triangularibus, haud parallelis; clypeo tricarinato. Antennae compressae, capiti tranverso cum oculis vix aequilongae, articulo uiltimo penultimo longiore. Thorax brevis, postice late emarginatus, tricarinatus, carinis lateralibus posterius leviter divergentibus. Tegmina abdomen multo superantia. Tibiae posticae bispinosae" (Stål 1859)
In the American Stobaera the head is distinctly narrower than the pronotum and the pygophor has no spines on the ventral margin in the male. (Kirkaldy 1907)
Stobaera has the spur of Alohini (Muir 1926) which is cultrate, solid, both surfaces convex, distinct teeth along the hind edge (Muir 1915).

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [135 footnote]

Muir, F. 1915. A contribution towards the taxonomy of the Delphacidae. The Canadian Entomologist 47: 261-270 [269]

Muir, F. 1926. Contributions to our knowledge of South American Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Part 1. The Family Delphacidae. Bulletin of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Entomological Series 18: 1–51 [17]

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