Bilbilis Stål, 1861

Gnezdilov, V. M., 2017, Notes on higher classification of the family Nogodinidae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea), with description of new tribe and new species, Far Eastern Entomologist 347, pp. 1-21 : 8

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 .

Figures

Figs 24–27. Bilbilis elongatus Gnezdilov, sp. n., holotype. 24 – head and pronotum

Figs 39–44. Nogodinidae. 39, 40 – Bilbilis dorsalis (Walker), holotype: 39 – lateral view;

Figs 45–48. Nogodinidae. 45–47 – Bilbilis elongatus Gnezdilov, sp. n., holotype: 45 –

Figs 20–23. Bilbilis modestus (Stål), Blue Mts. 20 – head (frontal view); 21 – head and