Alluaudensia Lallemand, 1920

Bucher, Manon, Bouteille, Emilien & Cesne, Maxime Le, 2024, Malagasy spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopidae), a taxonomic review of genera from Madagascar, European Journal of Taxonomy 935, pp. 166-202 : 169

Genus Alluaudensia Lallemand, 1920

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Alluaudensia Lallemand, 1920: 287 .

Type species

Alluaudensia nigrolineata Lallemand, 1920 by monotypy.

Synthesis of Lallemand's description

Alluaudensia is an endemic genus from Madagascar known by only one species described from a single female specimen by Lallemand (1920). He augmented his original description in 1949 ( Lallemand 1949). A synthesis based on Lallemand's descriptions is presented below:

HEAD. Vertex with a light hump carrying the ocelli on its anterior median part. Ocelli closer to each other than to compound eyes. Postclypeus with large furrow. Rostrum reaches mesocoxae.

THORAX. Pronotum strongly inclined on anterior part resulting in strongly humped shape; pronotum with dimples on each side and three transverse furrows. Hindlegs with two spines on metatibiae.

TEGMINA. Veins prominent. Apical part of tegmina with dense network of veins ( Lallemand 1920, 1949).

Distribution ( Fig. 2E )

Endemic genus of Madagascar.

Number of species: 1.

Figures

Fig. 2. Alluaudensia nigrolineata Lallemand, 1920, holotype, ♂ (MNHN(EH) 7394). A. Dorsal view. B. Lateral view. C. Frontal view. D. Labels. E. Distribution map. Scale bars = 1 mm.