• 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

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]

History of changes

• Dictyophora praeferrata Distant, W.L. 1893. Contributions to a knowledge of the homopterous family Fulgoridae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1892: 275-286 [279].

Generic Combinations

• Thanatodictya praeferrata (Distant, 1892). —
  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]

Introduction

A fairly widespread species with a relatively short straight head extension and brown markings on the tegmen. A record from Western Australia needs to be confirmed.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

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)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head and thorax above ochraceous; cephalic process, with the lateral margins and sometimes the apex, fuscous. Pronotum, with the central keel and margins, somewhat paler in hue, the disk wrinkled. Mesonotum, with three central keels, triangularly united posteriorly, and pale ochraceous. Legs ochraceous, femora striated with fuscous. Tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation fuscous; their apices — broadly in the tegmina and narrowly in the wings — fuscous. The cephalic process is distinctly and broadly grooved above, the apex very slightly widened and subacutely convex; in the neighbourhood of the eyes it has three distinct keels. Long. excl. tegm. 12 mm. Long. head, 5 mm. Long. tegm. 9 mm. (Distant 1893)

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1893. Contributions to a knowledge of the homopterous family Fulgoridae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1892: 275-286 [279]

History of changes