Genus Nesochlamys Kirkaldy, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nesochlamys Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [115].

  Type species:

   Nesochlamys vitiensis Kirkaldy, 1907 (Fiji) by monotypy.
• Nesocharis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [110] [junior homonym].

  Type species:

   Nesocharis calypso Kirkaldy, 1907 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Muir, F. 1925. On the genera of Cixiidae, Meenoplidae and Kinnaridae. (Fulgoroidea, Homoptera). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 1(3): 97-110 [102] (synonymy of Nesocharis and Nesochlamys)
• Metcalf, Z.P. 1936. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea. Part 2, Cixiidae. Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 269 pp. [22] (Nesocharis preoccupied, Nesochlamys as next available name)

Introduction

A genus of five Australian species plus additional species in Fiji and Vanuatu. The Australian species are handsomely coloured with rich dark brown and cream. Females can only be identified as far as genus, the species being differentiated by the structures of the male genitalia.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Morphology. Body length: ♂ 3.1–3.9 mm. Head: Head including eyes much narrower than pronotum. Vertex with strongly angulated anterior margin; median carina distinct, covering 1/2–3/4 of length of vertex; lateral carinae strongly elevated; subapical carina absent or present. Frons invisible in dorsal view; maximum width of frons more than twice apical width, steadily widening; position of maximum width of frons slightly dorsad of centre of frontoclypeal suture; median carina complete; lateral carinae slightly elevated. Frontoclypeal suture slightly semicircular, bent upwards, median part not reaching lower margin of antennal scape. Lateral carinae of anteclypeus weakly developed or absent. Rostrum not or just reaching hind coxae; subapical segment of rostrum 1.1–1.3 times longer than apical segment. Thorax: Forewing with Sc+R+M fused, forming common stem; MA apically bifid. Hind tibia with 5 apical teeth. Female genitalia: Ovipositor elongate, orthopteroid, slightly curved upwards, reaching or surpassing anal style; 8th sternite medially very short, not bent dorsad (in same plane as 7th sternite), posterior margin ushaped; anal segment square (as long as wide) or rectangular (slightly longer than wide) in dorsal view, sometimes apex wider than base; anal style longer than wide; 9th tergite without wax plates. (Löcker et.al. 2010)

ID Keys

Löcker, B. and Fletcher, M.J (2010). Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Tribe Eucarpiini found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/cixiid/eucarpiini/eucar00.htm

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the Australian Eucarpiini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of nine new species. Zootaxa (2425): 1-31 [19]

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