Desudaboides Musgrave, 1927

Constant, Jerome, 2010, Review of the Australian genus Desudaboides Musgrave with descriptions of four new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae), Zootaxa 2351, pp. 39-48 : 40

Genus Desudaboides Musgrave, 1927

Type-species: Desudaboides fuscomaculata Musgrave, 1927 by original designation and monotypy.

Desudaboides Musgrave, 1927: 47 ; Metcalf, 1947: 92; Lallemand, 1963: 8; Nagai & Porion, 1996: 15.

The genus is characterized by the following combination of characters: (1) head as broad as pronotum; (2) frons broader than long and with lateral margins sinuate, longer than the clypeus; (3) clypeus broader than long; (4) vertex excavate; (5) mesonotum tricarinate; (6) tegmina at least three times longer than broad, roundly pointed apically; (7) clavus open with vein A1+A2 short and ending in sutural margin; (8) hind wings shorter and broader than tegmina.

The genus is endemic in Australia where one other genus of Poiocerinae is represented (in N Queensland): Birdantis Stål, 1863 . The latter is easily separated by the head being narrower than the thorax.