Genus Yamirrina Löcker, 2020
- Yamirrina Löcker, B. 2020. Revision of Leades Jacobi with the description of a new genus, Yamirrina gen. nov., and notes on the absence of Iolania Kirkaldy from Australia (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae: Cixiini). Journal of Insect Biodiversity 18(1): 17–49 [34].
Type species:
Yamirrina concolor Löcker, 2020 by original designation.
Introduction
This genus includes two species from coastal eastern Australia.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Diagnosis
The diagnostic features of Yamirrina are: frons longer than wide, lacking a median ocellus. Head including eyes much narrower than pronotum in dorsal view. Frontoclypeal suture only slightly semicircular, bent upwards, median part by far not reaching lower margin of antennal scape. The pronotum is very short. Forewing with r-m1 at same level or basad of fork MP1 and MP2. Second hind tarsomere without platellae but up to three very fine setae. Anal tube with extremely long anal style (more than twice as long as remainder of 11th segment). The innermost spine of the row of apical spines on the hind tibia is the shortest.Yamirrina can be separated from all other Australian Cixiini by a combination of the following characters: head with apical transverse carina V-shaped, shallowly U-shaped or almost straight; basal compartment of vertex about as long as wide; median carina of frons unforked; second hind tarsomere without platellae but with 3 or fewer very fine setae (Löcker 2020).
ID Keys
Löcker 2020: 19–20
Diagnosis References
Löcker, B. 2020. Revision of Leades Jacobi with the description of a new genus, Yamirrina gen. nov., and notes on the absence of Iolania Kirkaldy from Australia (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae: Cixiini). Journal of Insect Biodiversity 18(1): 17–49 [35]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIXIIDAE Spinola, 1839 | 21-Jul-2020 | ADDED | Dr Murray Fletcher |