Genus Toya Distant, 1906

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• Toya Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Homoptera. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 3: 1-503 [472].

  Type species:

   Toya attenuata Distant, 1906 by original designation.

Introduction

A genus with a wide distribution in both Australia and overseas. It includes some of the most common delphacids in Australia, particularly the turf planthopper, Toya dryope (Kirkaldy).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN) ; NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Head (including eyes) a little narrower than pronotum; vertex narrow, a little longer than broad, with a transverse ridge between the eyes, behind which the surface is quadrangularly foveate, and in front of which it is tricarinate, the apices of the carinae being distinctly prominent; face long and narrow, more than twice as long as broad, medially and laterally carinate, the central carination furcate at base, moderately ampliate on posterior half; clypeus tricarinate; pronotum slightly wider than vertex, between the eyes truncate, tricarinate, its posterior margin concavely sinuate; mesonotum tricarinate; tegmina about twice as long as body, apically rounded, the veins longitudinal, crossed beyond middle by an irregular series of transverse veins, on apical area three oblique veins extend to costa; posterior tibiae with two spines, one before and the other near apex, and with a long robust apical mobile spur (Distant 1906)

ID Keys

Fennah 1965: 4

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Homoptera. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 3: 1-503 [472]

Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [4]

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