Review of the Australian genus Desudaboides Musgrave with descriptions of four new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae)
Author
Constant, Jerome
text
Zootaxa
2010
2351
39
48
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.193465
528ee433-dead-4f67-8519-4d80311b1319
1175-5326
193465
Genus
Desudaboides
Musgrave, 1927
Type-species:
Desudaboides fuscomaculata
Musgrave, 1927
by original designation and monotypy.
Desudaboides
Musgrave, 1927
: 47
;
Metcalf, 1947
: 92
;
Lallemand, 1963
: 8
;
Nagai & Porion, 1996
: 15
.
The genus is characterized by the following combination of characters: (
1
) head as broad as pronotum; (
2
) frons broader than long and with lateral margins sinuate, longer than the clypeus; (
3
) clypeus broader than long; (
4
) vertex excavate; (
5
) mesonotum tricarinate; (
6
) tegmina at least three times longer than broad, roundly pointed apically; (
7
) clavus open with vein A1+A2 short and ending in sutural margin; (
8
) hind wings shorter and broader than tegmina.
The genus is endemic in
Australia
where one other genus of
Poiocerinae
is represented (in N Queensland):
Birdantis
Stål, 1863
. The latter is easily separated by the head being narrower than the thorax.