Genus Alocanthella Evans
 

Type species: Alocanthella fulva Evans, by original designation

Known species: Only the type species is described but Day (1999) indicates that there are several species, all from northern Australia.

Distribution: Qld, NT (northern and central Australia, Day 1999)

Comments: These species are small and squat with the pronotum broadly humped in lateral view. The median pronotal process (MPP) is undulate dorsally (saddle-shaped is the term used by Day 1999) and is similar to the MPP of Bunyella dromedarius which has an anterior pronotal saddle in addition to the posterior one.. 

Alocanthella sp.
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of Australian Membracidae

Document 7260, submitted 28 March 2008
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