Genus Uloprora Evans, 1939

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• Uloprora Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [44].

  Type species:

   Uloprora risdonensis Evans, 1939 by original designation.

 

Introduction

This is another monotypic endemic genus of Australian Ulopini. The type species is immediately recognisable because of the sinuate anterior prolongation of the head.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Diagnosis

The head is narrowly produced, the apex tilted dorsally; the produced portion, which consists solely of the vertex, is laterally flattened and keeled both dorsally and ventrally. The anteclypeus is sunk below the level of the lora and the frontoclypeus, the latter is somewhat depressed posteriorly between the antennal pits. Coronal and epicranial sutures are distinct but there is no trace of frontal sutures and the ocelli, which are on the crown of the head, lie well in front of the eyes. The tegmina narrow apically and the veins are raised in relief. Wings are absent. The hind tibiae are short with small feebly developed spines (Evans 1939).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2005) Illustrated Key to the Australian Genera of the Tribe Ulopini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Ulopinae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/ulopinae/ulop00.htm [accessed: 20.iii.2012]

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [44]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		27-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
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