Genus Ugyops Guérin-Méneville, 1834

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• Ugyops Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1834. Essai d'un nouvel arrangement des Hémiptères de la section des Homoptères, et révision de la tribu des Fulgorelles. pp. 445-480 in Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (ed.). Voyage aux Indes-Orientales, par le nord de l'Europe les provinces de Caucase, la Géorgie, l'Arménie et la Perse, suivi de détails topographiques, statistiques et autres sue le Pégou, les Isles de Java, de Maurice et de Bourbon, sur le Cap-de-bonne-Espérance ete Sainte Hélène pendant les années 1825-1829. Zoologie. Insectes. Paris : M.C. Bélanger. [477].

  Type species:

   Ugyops percheronii Guérin-Méneville, 1829 by monotypy.
• Hygiops Amyot, C.J.B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insects. Hémiptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Rue Hautefeuille 10 B13 676 pp. [511] [replacement name].

  Type species:

   Hygiops percheronii Guérin-Méneville, 1829 by monotypy.
• Bidis Walker, F. 1857. Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected at Singapore and Malacca by Mr A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 1: 82-100 [88].

  Type species:

   Bidis notivena Walker, 1857 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1846. Nomenclatoris zoologici index universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium, tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum unicum disposita, adjectis homonymiis plantarum. Soloduri : Sumtibus et typis Jent et Gassmann. 1-1135 pp. [1105] (synonymy of Hygiops)
• Stål, C. 1866. Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. Hemiptera Africana 4: 1-276 [175] (synonymy of Bidis)

Introduction

A widespread genus with many species distributed across the western Pacific and southeast Asia regions. The Australian species are mostly brachypterous or semi-macropterous and have the first two antennal segments greatly elongated. Donaldson (1983) treated six species from Australia, five of which are found in the tropical north of Queensland with U. sejunctus Donaldson extending south to NE New South Wales and U. musgravei which is found only on Lord Howe and Norfolk islands. U. aristella (Kirby), is found on Christmas Island and was not treated by Donaldson (1983).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Diagnosis

The Australian Ugyops are characterised as follows: Vertex longer in midline than broad at base, posterior margin positioned at about midpoint or slightly anterior to midpoint of eyes, Y-shaped carina with basal stem obsolete or subobsolete. Frons longer in midline than wide, widest about one-fifth from apex, rounding into vertex; antennae with segment 2 longer than segment 1, ocelli obsolete or subobsolete, rostrum reaching hind coxae. Pronotum with lateral carinae concave and recurved to meet posterior margin adjacent to tegulae. Mesonotum with 5 carinae. Anal segment of ♂ longer than broad. Genital styles in ventral view diverging at base and converging and meeting at or near apex. (Donaldson 1983)

Diagnosis References

Donaldson, J.F. 1983. Revision of the Australian Asiracinae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Delphacidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 22: 277-285 [277]

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