Genus Harmalia Fennah, 1969

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• Harmalia Fennah, R.G. 1969. Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. Pacific Insects Monographs 21: 1-116 [37].

  Type species:

   Sogata thoracica Distant, 1916 by original designation.

Introduction

The genus Harmalia was created by Fennah (1969) to contain five species one of which, H. ostorius (Kirkaldy), was from the wet tropics of North Queensland although he did not examine specimens of the species, presumably relying on Kirkaldy's (1907) illustrations of the male genitalia to establish its identity. A number of oriental species have been added to the genus more recently indicating that Harmalia is widespread in the western Pacific and Oriental regions.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Vertex quadrate, longer medially than broad at base, apical margin transverse, submedian carinae uniting on vertex more or less basad of anterior margin, basal compartment of vertex short, broader than long, frons more than 2 x as long as broad, widest distad of middle, median carinae simple; antennae with basal segment longer than broad (less than 2 : 1), 2nd segment longer than 1st (about 1.5 : 1); ocelli distinct; clypeus at base only a little wider than frons at apex; rostrum scarcely attaining postcoxae, or not quite doing so. Pronotum with median disc about as long in middle line as broad at anterior margin, lateral carinae curving laterad, not attaining hind margin, post-tibial spur large, thin, flattened, with more than 20 teeth, which in distal part are usually staggered in 2 rows. (Fennah 1969)

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1969. Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. Pacific Insects Monographs 21: 1-116 [37–38]

History of changes