Family Tettigometridae
The Family Tettigometridae is not present in Australia or New Zealand. It is distributed primarily in Europe, Africa and the Americas with a few species found in Asia. Three species have been recorded in Indonesia although an additional species ... [... more]
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Tribe Deltocephalini
These leafhoppers are characterised by the basal connective of the aedeagus having the arms parallel-sided throughout. Many of the Australian species were placed in the "hold-all" genus Deltocephalus by Evans (1966) but none has true affinity .. [... more]
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Tribe Stenocotini
The Australian Stenocotini are medium sized to larger leafhoppers associated with eucalypt trees. Most species appear to live and feed on the trunk of smooth-barked trees where remnants of old bark provide shelter when necessary. Some of the ... [... more]
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Family Hylicidae
The Hylicidae are a small group of large tropical leafhoppers (10-17mm) related to the more widespread Horned Treehoppers (Family Membracidae). The hylicids are mainly SE Asian in distribution with a few species extending to Africa. There are no ... [... more]
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Family Acanaloniidae
The Acanaloniidae is a family well represented in Central and South America with a few species in S.E. Asia and Africa. Until 1999, no acanaloniids were known from Australia other than Andrewsiella oceanica Izzard from Christmas Island, a ... [... more]
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Family Meenoplidae
The Family Meenoplidae is represented in Australia by a few species of Nisia Melichar (1903: 53) in the tropical North and two species of Phaconeura Kirkaldy (1906: 427) in the more southerly parts of mainland Australia. Nearly half of the known ... [... more]
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Family Dictyopharidae
The Family Dictyopharidae is well represented in Indonesia but not in the Australasian region, although the bright green Hasta hastata Kirkaldy and species of Thanatodictya Kirkaldy which are brown, are quite common in Australia. Only T. ... [... more]
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Signoretiinae
This small subfamily is restricted to the tropical regions of Africa and Asia with two species represented in Indonesia. The species are medium-sized with a swollen frons (which has led to the group sometimes being included as a Tribe ... [... more]
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Tribe Paralimnini
The Australian Paralimnini are mostly medium sized leafhoppers which are often brightly coloured. Fletcher and Condello (1994) reviewed the genus Euleimonios, distinguished by having the lora swollen and overlapping the sides of the anteclypeus ... [... more]
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Family Lophopidae
The Family Lophopidae is far better represented in Indonesia and New Guinea than in Australia which only has three species: the sugarcane pest Lophops saccharacida (Kirkaldy) found in Qld and NT, Kasserota illingworthi Baker found in Qld and ... [... more]
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Tribe Paradorydiini
The Australian and New Zealand eupelicines are all members of the Tribe Paradorydiini. These are elongate, seed-like leafhoppers somewhat similar to the Cephalelini but differing by having the hind tibiae much longer than the fore and mid tibiae ... [... more]
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Tribe Nirvanini
The Nirvanini are easily recognised by the shape of the head, coupled with the presence of only two preapical cells in the tegmen. The Australian fauna includes some beautiful insects including the brightly coloured species of Tortor and the ... [... more]
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