Genus Chlamydopteryx Kirkaldy
Chlamydopteryx vulturnus (Kirkaldy)
Genus Chlamydopteryx Kirkaldy 1907: 103. Type species: Issus vulturnus Kirkaldy, 1906, by original designation.
Known species: Six species are known in this endemic Australian genus. Five are from Qld while one, C. sidnicus, is only known from New South Wales.
Notes: As with Tetrica, this genus can be differentiated from most of the other Australian issid genera by the absence of the distinctive features of those other genera. From Tetrica, it can be differentiated by the broader face and by the almost complete lack of crossveins in the hindwings.
One species, C. mammoides Gnezdilov & Fletcher, from Queensland is distinctive in having two rounded orbs on its face. It is presumed that these are defensive mimicry of the enlarged front eyes of salticid (jumping) spiders and the planthoppers may well move in short sharp jumps to heighten the illusion. Other planthoppers which may use a similar defensive technique include the eurybrachid Gelastopsis insignis and possibly the issid Chlamydopteryx sidnicus but neither has the imitation quite as well developed as C. mammoides.