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Genus Tetrica Stål, 1866


Compiler and date details

11 April 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher

Introduction

Eighteen species are known in this genus, distributed from India to New Guinea and from the Philippines to Australia. Two species are known from Australia, both only in the wet tropics of North Queensland. As with Sarima, revision of the oriental issid fauna may redefine the generic placement of these two species.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Capite thoraceque aeque latis, illo ante oculos haud prominulo, vertice transverso, oculis latitudine subsequali; fronte aeque longa ac lata, prope apicem ampliata; lateribus clypei carina instructis; corpore paullo compresso (Stål 1866).

Gnezdilov & Fletcher (2010) provided a key to the Australian genera (subsequently modified and published on the web, see below) and differentiated Tetrica from most of the other Australian genera by the absence of the distinctive features defining the other genera. From Chlamydopteryx, the genus can be differentiated by the relatively narrower face and by the number of crossveins in the hindwing.

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. & Gnezdilov, V.M. (2010) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Issidae described from Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/issidae/iss00.htm

 

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)
11-Apr-2011 11-Apr-2011 MOVED
13-Apr-2011 11-Apr-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)