Notes on higher classification of the family Nogodinidae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea), with description of new tribe and new species
Author
Gnezdilov, V. M.
text
Far Eastern Entomologist
2017
2017-11-29
347
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http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.347.1
journal article
10.25221/fee.347.1
2713-2196
7163777
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Genus
Bilbilis
Stål, 1861
Bilbilis
Stål, 1861: 208
.
Type
species:
Hysteropterum modestum
Stål, 1859
by original designation.
DIAGNOSIS. Metope bearing sensory pits, with median and sublateral carinae not joint on its upper margin, but far separated from each other (
Figs 24
,
40, 43
,
46
). Coryphe short at midline and wide. Pronotum bearing sensory pits, with strongly convex (protruding between the eyes) anterior margin (
Figs 21
,
25
);
posterior margin strongly concave. Paradiscal fields relatively wide. Paranotal lobes large and long, with trough-curved lower margin (
Fig. 24
). Aedeagus wih pair of long ventral hooks. Apical aedeagal processes bilobed apically. Style with long and narrow capitulum, without teeth.
COMPOSITION. The genus
Bilbilis
is endemic to
Australia
and currently comprises 4 species including a new one described below – two species are known from
Western Australia
and one species – from
New South Wales
;
type
locality of fourth species is unknown. Key to species is given below
.