Genus Zygina Fieber, 1866

Museums

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• Zygina Fieber, F.X. 1866. Neue Gattungen und Arten in Homopteren (Cicadina Bur.). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 16: 497-516 [509].

  Type species:

   Typhlocyba nivea Mulsant & Rey, 1855 by monotypy.

Introduction

The two Australian species currently placed in this genus do not belong there. Most of the Australian species previously placed in Zygina were transferred to the new genus Anzygina Fletcher & Larivière in 2009 but these two were left behind because they also do not belong in Anzygina. Their generic placement is still to be determined. True Zygina are widely distributed through the Oriental, Palaearctic and Nearctic regions with a false record from South Africa. The South African record presumably comes from the publication of the name "Zygina sp." for a species introduced to Australia from South Africa for the biological control of bridal veil creeper, Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce (Asparagaceae). The species probably belongs to an undescribed South African genus (C.H. Dietrich, pers. comm. 2009).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

No diagnosis is provided since this genus does not actually occur in Australia.

History of changes