Tribe Tharrini Nielson, 1975

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• Tharrini Nielson, M.W. 1975. A revision of the subfamily Coelidiinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Tribes Tinobregmini, Sandersellini and Tharrini. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Supplement) 24: 1-197 [31].

  Type genus:

   Tharra Kirkaldy, 1906.

Introduction

This tribe of three genera is distributed primarily across the Pacific. Of the three genera, one, Tharra Kirkaldy, reaches northern Australia with four species although there are numerous species recognised in New Guinea and neighbouring islands.

Diagnosis

Small to medium size, slender, almost asiracine-like leafhoppers. Colour uniform to highly marked, sexual dimorphism evident. Head generally elongated; crown with anterior margin almost always produced distally beyond anterior margin of eyes, disk elevated above eyes, sometimes depressed medially, ocelli prominent; eyes elongate-ovoid; pronotum with surface finely knobbed; scutellum large; elytra long, broad apically, appendix well developed, venation usually prominent, outer anteapical cell closed, middle and inner anteapical cells opened basally, five apical cells with sides nearly parallel; clypeus long, broad anteriorly, excised near antennal sockets, tapered apically, surface finely granulose, median longitudinal carina usually absent; clypellus long; setal arrangement on hind femur 2 : 2 : 1. Male genitalia symmetrical; pygofer narrowed longitudinally; aedeagus bipendulate; plate segmented, laterally appressed, often elliptical, sometimes subquadrate, profusely setose (Nielson 1975)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2009 and updates). Key to the leafhoppers and treehoppers of Australia and neighbouring areas (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/index.html

Diagnosis References

Nielson, M.W. 1975. A revision of the subfamily Coelidiinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Tribes Tinobregmini, Sandersellini and Tharrini. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Supplement) 24: 1-197 [31]

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