Subgenus Thanatodictya (Thanatodictya) Kirkaldy, 1906

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Regional Maps

• Thanatodictya Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [392].

  Type species:

   Dictyophora praeferrata Distant, 1892 by monotypy.

Introduction

This subgenus is now monotypic after T. handschini Lallemand was transferred to the genus Articrius by Emeljanov (2008). The single species remaining is widespread in eastern and northern Australia although it is possible that there are cryptic species present. An examination of the identities of all species of Thanatodictya is needed.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Head not nodulose basally; head porrect; stigma pallid, composed of 5 or 6 cells; length over 14 mm.

ID Keys

Kirkaldy (1906: 392)

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [392]

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