Genus Aufidus Stål
Aufidus trifasciatus Stål
Aufidus lucidus Jacobi
Genus Aufidus Stål 1863:
594
Type species: Aufidus trifasciatus Stål, by original
designation
Generic distribution: Mysol, Australia
Known Australian species: A. trifasciatus Stål and A. lucidus Jacobi, both from Queensland
Comments: The species of Aufidus are delicate cercopids with fine membranous tegmina. Both species vary in colour from pale orange to almost white with dark transverse striping which is much bolder in A. trifasciatus than in A. lucidus. A. trifasciatus was originally described from Mysol and is quite common in North Queensland.