Genus Gedrosia Stål, 1862
Compiler and date details
9 November 2010 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Gedrosia Stål, C. 1862. Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 19: 479-504 [488].
Type species:
Eurybrachys varia Walker, 1851 by original designation.
Introduction
The identity of this genus is not well known. It was included in a key to the genera of Platybrachini by Fennah (1964) but it needs redescription. The only included species was described by Walker (1851) simply from "New Holland' (= Australia).
Distribution
Recorded from "Australia".
Diagnosis
Second segment of antennae elongate, swollen, surpassing eyes. Frons traversed from side to side medially by a furrow. Tegmina relatively narrow, distally tapering or sinuate with M not forked close to base. (Fennah 1964)
ID Keys
Fletcher, M.J. (2000). Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Eurybrachidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/eurybrachidae/eurygen00.htm
Diagnosis References
Fennah, R.G. 1964. Three new genera of Eurybrachyidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) from West Africa and Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 33(9-10): 157-162 [159]