Cleotyche (Griseotyche), Constant & Semeraro & Moir, 2022

Constant, Jérôme, Semeraro, Linda & Moir, Melinda L., 2022, Australian Cleotychini planthoppers: review of the genus Cleotyche Emeljanov, 1997 with three new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Dictyopharidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 836, pp. 66-95 : 91

Subgenus Griseotyche subgen. nov.

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Type species and locality

Cleotyche blanda Emeljanov, 2011 (by present designation); Stirling Range National Park, Western Australia.

Species included

Cleotyche (Griseotyche) blanda Emeljanov, 2011 .

Diagnosis

Ground colour pale grey (brown in Cleotyche ( Cleotyche )). Transverse whitish stripe on frons continued on side of body, becoming less distinct and greyish on abdomen (no transverse white stripe on face nor lateral white stripe on body in Cleotyche ( Cleotyche )). No white band along apical margin of tegmina (present in Cleotyche ( Cleotyche )). Small dark spots on all visible segments of the abdomen dorsally where the sensory pits occur (no dark spots on dorsum of abdomen in Cleotyche (Cleotyche) due to the very dark ground colouration of species).

Etymology

The new subgenus name is formed from ‘ griseus ’ (adj., Latin) meaning ‘grey’, and ‘- tyche ’, the ending of ‘ Cleotyche ’. It refers to the mostly grey colouration of the member of the new subgenus.