Genus Parasiphanta Fletcher, 1988

Parasiphanta lanceolata Fletcher, type species of Parasiphanta.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Parasiphanta Fletcher, M.J. 1988. The Australian genera of Flatidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). General and Applied Entomology 20: 9-32 [19].

  Type species:

   Parasiphanta lanceolata Fletcher, 1988 by original designation.

Introduction

A monotypic genus created on the basis of tegmen shape. It is recorded in the northern part of the Northern Territory and from NW Western Australia.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Daly Basin (DAB), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU)

Diagnosis

Head short, frons and vertex separated by carinate margin. Frons longer than wide, with median longitudinal carina. Lateral carinae obscure or obsolete. Vertex flat, without carinae. Pronotum and mesonotum flattish medially, without median longitudinal carina. Tegmen elongate, lanceolate, somewhat incurved ventrally beyond abdomen. Sutural margin long, straight from apex of scutellum to acute sutural angle. Apical margin oblique, straight from sutural angle to apex of costal cell, thence costal margin lightly convex to base. Subapical lines absent. Cu simple. Costal cell wider than costal membrane. Hind tibia with one spine on external margin (Fletcher 1988).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2005). Illustrated key to the genera of the family Flatidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/flatid/flat00.htm

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 1988. The Australian genera of Flatidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). General and Applied Entomology 20: 9-32 [19]

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