Genus Kallitaxila Kirkaldy, 1901

Museums

Regional Maps

• Kallitaxila Kirkaldy, G.W. 1901. Miscellenea Rhynchotalia. The Entomologist 34: 5-6 [6] [replacement name; for Taxila Stål, 1870].

  Type species:

   Taxila granulata Stål, 1870 by original designation.
• Taxila Stål, C. 1870. Hemiptera insularum Philippinarum. Bidrag till Philippinska oarnes Hemipter-fauna. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 27: 607-776 [750] [junior homonym; of Taxila Doubleday, 1847].

  Type species:

   Taxila granulata Stål, 1870 by monotypy.
• Taxilana Melichar, L. 1914. Monographie der Tropiduchinen (Homoptera). Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 53: 1-145 [90] [invalid name; unnecessary nom. nov. for Taxila Stål, 1870].

Introduction

Kallitaxila includes a dozen species distributed between the Philippines and China with a single species, K. granulata (Stål), in the Philippines and Christmas Island. The occurrence of K. granulata on Christmas Island is somewhat anomalous with the distribution of the genus generally and the species in particular. Further collections in S.E. Asia, particularly those parts of Indonesia closest to Christmas Island, will determine whether the species is likely to have been introduced to the island or if its presence there represents the southern limit of a more widely distributed species than the current records show.

Distribution

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Diagnosis

Corpus parvum, paullo depressum. Caput thorace circiter tertia parte augustius, ante oculos paullo prominulum: vertice oculis fere plus duplo latiore, obtuso, carina longitudinali percurrente media instructo, posterius latera versus carinula brevi longitudinali praedito, margine basali recto, angulis posticis retrorsum paullo productis: fronte maxime reclinata, apice truncata, apicem versus utrimque obtuse angulato-ampliata, supra angulum sensim angustata, marginibus lateralibus leviter obtuse elevatis, carina subtili percurrente, basin versus magis elevata et latiore; clypeo basin versus planiusculo, carina longitudinali obsoleta instructo, marginibus lateralibus carina destitutis. Oculi subtus integri. Antennae breves, articulo ultimo fere breviore quam crassiore. Rostrum breve, articulo ultimo brevissimo, aeque longo ac lato. Thorax carinis tribus percurrentibus, lateralibus valde divergentibus, instructus, antice medio obtuse productus et pone verticem truncatus, basi obtuse angulariter sinuatus. Scutellum carinis tribus percurrentibus, parallells, lateralibus antice paullo convergentibus, instructum. Tegmina oblonga, apice suboblique rotundata, apicem versus haud ampliata; clavi vena exteriore paullo pone medium clavi cum vena interiore conjuncta; corio partibus duabus tertiis basalibus granulis adsperso, vena ulnari interiore fere ad medium suturae clavi furcata, vena ulnari exteriore simplici, vena radiali longe pone medium tegminis furcata, venis longitudinalibus posteriora versus serie recta venularum transversarum, ad apicem clavi incipiente, oblique extrorsum vel retrorsum currente conjunctis, pone hanc seriem furcatis et longius posterius venis transversis in arcum dispositis conjunctis; costa a margine paullo remota. Pedes breviusculi, simplices; tibiis posticis pone medium distincte bispinosis. (Stål 1870)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2001) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Tropiduchidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/tropid/tropid00.htm

Diagnosis References

Stål, C. 1870. Hemiptera insularum Philippinarum. Bidrag till Philippinska oarnes Hemipter-fauna. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 27: 607-776 [750]

History of changes