Gunhilda Distant

C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, Zootaxa 2844, pp. 1-118 : 57

Genus Gunhilda Distant

Gunhilda Distant 1918: 88 , fig. 52. Type-species: Gunhilda noctua Distant , by original designation.

Female. “Vertex of head only a little more in length than half the breadth between eyes, the lateral margins truncate before eyes and then broadly rounded; face slightly longer than broad, convex, moderately centrally carinate; pronotum about as long as vertex of head, moderately convex between eyes, the posterior margin truncate; scutellum small, considerably shorter than pronotum; tegmina short, only extending a little over base of abdomen, their apical margins rounded; tibiae spinulose, the posterior tibiae more strongly and densely spinulose” ( Distant 1918). Hind tibial macrosetae PD 5, AD 6, AV 4. Six abdominal tergites exposed.

Remarks. Only the female of this genus is known. Until the male is discovered the relationship of this genus with other genera of Agalliini remains obscure. It resembles species of Agallia and Anaceratagallia from which it can be distinguished by the smaller number of hind tibial macrosetae on all the three rows and by the pitted short forewings.