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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2023/63/2
First record of the tribe Oecleini in Australia (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of a new genus and species
First record of the tribe Oecleini in Australia (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of a new genus and species
Werner E. Holzinger, Birgit Löcker
| Pages | 349–361 |
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| DOI | 10.37520/aemnp.2023.022 |
| Keywords | Hemiptera, Delphacoidea, Fulgoroidea, Cicadina, host plant, planthopper, taxonomy, Zamiaceae, Western Australia |
| Citation | HOLZINGER, Werner E. a LÖCKER, Birgit. First record of the tribe Oecleini in Australia (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of a new genus and species. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. Prague: National Museum, 2023, 63(2), 349–361. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2023.022. ISSN 0374-1036 (print) 1804-6487 (online). Also available from: https://publikace.nm.cz/en/periodicals/acta-entomologica-musei-nationalis-pragae/63-2/first-record-of-the-tribe-oecleini-in-australia-hemiptera-auchenorrhyncha-fulgoromorpha-cixiidae-with-the-description-of-a-new-genus-and-species |
A new genus and species, Apollo maculiceps gen. & sp. nov., in the planthopper family Cixiidae is described from south Western Australia. It can be distinguished from all other Australian Cixiidae by the presence of a denticle on the distal part of the fore coxa, a character that is shared with some other Oecleini genera. Large numbers of Apollo maculiceps gen. & sp. nov. were observed feeding on a native Australian cycad Macrozamia riedlei (family Zamiaceae). This is the first record of the economically important tribe Oecleini from Australia. A revised key to the tribes of the Australian Cixiidae is presented.
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