Genus Tropidocephala Stål, 1853

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• Tropidocephala Stål, C. 1853. Nya Genera bland Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 10: 259-267 [266].

  Type species:

   Tropidocephala flaviceps Stål, 1855 by subsequent designation, see Stål, C. 1855. Hemiptera fran Kafferlandet. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 12: 89-100 [93].
• Conicoda Matsumura, S. 1900. Übersicht der Fulgoriden Japans. Entomologische Nachrichten. Berlin 26: 257-269 [part 2] [258].

  Type species:

   Conicoda graminea Matsumura, 1900 by subsequent designation, see Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [141].
• Orchesma Melichar, L. 1903. Homopteren-Fauna von Ceylon. Berlin: Felix L. Dames. 248 pp. [94].

  Type species:

   Orchesma marginepunctata Melichar, 1903 by subsequent designation, see Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Homoptera. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 3: 1-503 [476].
• Ectopiopterygodelphax Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [412].

  Type species:

   Ectopiopterygodelphax eximia Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.
• Smara Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Homoptera. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 3: 1-503 [478].

  Type species:

   Smara festiva Distant, 1906 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Melichar, L. 1902. Homopteren aus West-China, Persien und dem Süd-Ussuri-Gebiete. Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences. St. Petersbourg 7: 76-146 [90] (synonymy of Conicoda)
• Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [141] (synonymy of Orchesma, Ectopiopterygodelphax and Samara)

Introduction

This is a species-rich genus found throughout Africa and Asia to New Guinea and Australia. Three species were recognised in the Australian fauna by Donaldson (1991) who redescribed the genus.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Donaldson, J.F. 1991. Revision of the Australian Tropidocephalini (Hemiptera: Delphacidae: Delphacinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 30: 325-332 [326]

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