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Family Issidae - Issid planthoppers

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Chlamydopteryx sidnicus (Kirkaldy)

The Family Issidae contains small brown planthoppers with tegmina longer than wide and pronounced venation. The most common species in eastern Australia is Chlamydopteryx sidnicus (Kirkaldy), shown here, which has distinctive banding on the tegmina. The Australian fauna, which contains many undescribed species particularly in the arid regions of Australia, was reviewed by Gnezdilov & Fletcher (2010) who provided a key to the described genera, on which the key provided here is based.

Emeljanov (1999) transfered the subfamilies Nogodininae, Caliscelinae, Tonginae and Trienopinae out of the Issidae, the first two as families in their own right and the latter two as subfamilies of the Acanaloniidae. Gnezdilov (2007) moved the Tonginae and Trienopinae to the Tropiduchidae.

[last update: 11 July 2007]

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Species of Issidae known to occur in Australia

Subfamily Issinae

Tribe ISSINI Stål

Issida Stål 1866a: 202

Note: Metcalf (1958) credited this tribe to Fieber (1875) but Fieber (1875) credited it to Stål (1866a).

 

Genus Apsadaropteryx Kirkaldy

Apsadaropteryx Kirkaldy 1907: 103

 

Apsadaropteryx elongatulus (Kirkaldy)

Issus elongatulus Kirkaldy 1906: 438
Apsadaropteryx elongatulus (Kirkaldy), Kirkaldy 1907: 104

[update 22.i.2002: images added]

Qld

Genus Chlamydopteryx Kirkaldy

Chlamydopteryx Kirkaldy 1907: 103
Phaeopteryx Kirkaldy 1907: 104, synonymised by Gnezdilov & Fletcher 2010: 36

 

Chlamydopteryx bimaculifrons (Jacobi )

Orinda bimaculifrons Jacobi 1928: 9
Chlamydopteryx bimaculifrons (Jacobi), Gnezdilov & Fletcher 2010: 38

[update: 23.ii.2010]

Qld

Chlamydopteryx eurobium Kirkaldy

Chlamydopteryx eurobium Kirkaldy 1907: 103

[update 22.i.2002: image added]

Qld

Chlamydopteryx mammoides Gnezdilov & Fletcher

Chlamydopteryx mammoides Gnezdilov & Fletcher 2010: 36

[update: added 23.ii.2010]

Qld

Chlamydopteryx ridicularis (Kirkaldy)

Issus ridicularis Kirkaldy 1906: 438
Chlamydopteryx ridicularis (Kirkaldy), Kirkaldy 1907: 103

Qld

Chlamydopteryx sidnicus (Kirkaldy)

Issus sidnicus Kirkaldy 1906: 437
Phaeopteryx sidnicus (Kirkaldy), Kirkaldy 1907: 104
Chlamydopteryx sidnicus (Kirkaldy), Gnezdilov & Fletcher 2010: 38

[update 18.i.2002: Kirkaldy's (1907) reference to P. sidnicus recognised as new combination of I. sidnicus Kirkaldy (1906) and not new species.] 
[update 22.i.2002: Image added]
[update: 23.ii.2010]

NSW

Chlamydopteryx vulturnus (Kirkaldy)

Issus vulturnus Kirkaldy 1906: 437
Chlamydopteryx vulturnus (Kirkaldy), Kirkaldy 1907: 103


Note: Melichar (1914b: 105) recorded this species from Indonesia (Java) but this record needs to be confirmed.
[update 22.i.2002: image added]

Qld, Indonesia? (Java)

Genus Orinda Kirkaldy

Orinda Kirkaldy 1907: 104

 

Orinda lucindae (Kirkaldy)

Sarnus lucindae Kirkaldy 1906: 440
Orinda lucindae (Kirkaldy), Kirkaldy 1907: 104

[update: image added 30.xii.2005]

Qld

Orinda scapularis (Jacobi )

Terica scapularis Jacobi 1928: 12
Orinda scapularis (Jacobi), Gnezdilov & Fletcher 2010: 41

[update: 23.ii.2010]

Qld

Genus Sarima Melichar

Sarima Melichar 1903: 224

 

Sarima novaehollandiae Jacobi

Sarima novaehollandiae Jacobi 1928: 14

[update: image added 9.iii.2009]

Qld

Genus Tetrica Stål

Tetrica Stål 1866a: 208

 

Tetrica curvicosta Jacobi

Tetrica curvicosta Jacobi 1928: 13

[update: image added 9.iii.2009]

Qld

Tetrica tumidifrons Jacobi

Tetrica tumidifrons Jacobi 1928: 14

[update: image added 9.iii.2009]

Qld


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