Genus Wernindia Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Museums

Regional Maps

• Wernindia Löcker, B. & Fletcher, M.J. in Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C., Gurr, G.M., Holzinger, W.E. & Löcker, H. 2006. Taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of the Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae). Invertebrate Systematics 20: 59-160 [139].

  Type species:

   Wernindia rhomboidea Löcker & Fletcher, 2006 by original designation.

Introduction

A genus currently containing three nicely marked brown species although Löcker et.al. (2006) suggested that variability in a number of key features, such as the presence/absence of platellae on the first hind tarsomere, may indicate that they are not all congeneric. Further data are needed to confirm their true affinities. The name is derived from the names of the authors’ friends and Auchenorrhyncha colleagues Ingrid and Werner Holzinger of Austria.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Mulga Lands (ML), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Morphology. Body length. ♂ 3.6–4.4 mm, ♀ 3.9–4.6 mm. Head. Tip of head obtusely angled in lateral view. Apex of vertex broadly truncate; caudal border v-or u-shaped. Frons 1.1–1.5× longer than wide. Frontoclypeal suture slightly semicircular, median part not reaching lower margin of antennal scape. Thorax. Forewing with Sc+R+M forming common stem; nine apical cells. Hind tibia with six apical teeth in row; 2nd tarsomere with nine apical teeth and seven platellae. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J., Löcker, B., Larivière, M.C. and Löcker, H. (2006). Illustrated Key to the Australian Genera of the Planthopper Tribe Gelastocephalini  (Hemiptera: Cixiidae:Fulgoromorpha) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/cixiid/gelastocephalini/gel00.htm

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C., Gurr, G.M., Holzinger, W.E. & Löcker, H. 2006. Taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of the Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae). Invertebrate Systematics 20: 59-160 [139]

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