Genus Tumocerus Evans, 1942
Compiler and date details
13 October 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Tumocerus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [149].
Type species:
Tumocerus varius Evans, 1942 by original designation.
Introduction
This small genus of two species is endemic to the arid southern parts of Western Australia.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP)
Diagnosis
The maxillary plates are narrow and the lora and anteclypeus are flat and depressed below the swollen frontoclypeus; the eyes are large. The crown is wide and more or less at rightangles to the face though forming part of one curved surface with it. The sutures that limit the frontoclypeus posteriorly may be distinct or indistinct. The pronotum narrows laterally and the bases of the tegmina lie close behind the eyes. The tegmina have wide appendices and the crossvein that represents M 1+2 is considerably longer than is usual. The hind tibiae are short and have two strong spines set on enlarged bases in addition to several weak spines. The subgenital plates in the male are wide apically, the parameres are short and the pygophores are not produced (Evans 1942).
This genus can be distinguished by the relatively long and wrinkled vertex, the ocelli often visible from above, the strongly incurved lateral margins of the face, the tumid clypeus and the wrinkled scutellum (Webb 1983).
ID Keys
Webb 1983: 4–6
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [149]
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [63–64]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |