Chorotingis

Taxonomy

Chorotingis Drake, 1961

Type species: Chorotingis indigena Drake = Euaulana austrina Drake

Diagnostic characters

Head long, clypeus surpassing apical half of first antennal segmentantennal segment:
subdivisions of the antennae, denoted by constrictions. All Tingidae have 4 segments.  
; cephalic spinescephalic spine:
a spine on the head
present; bucculaebuccula:
an elevated ridge on either side of the first labial segment
open anteriorly; rostrumrostrum:
a beak or snout, applied especially to the piercing mouth-parts of bugs and elongated snouts of weevils
long, reaching abdominal segment; ventral side of abdomen without mediolongitudinal groove; pronotum tricarinatetricarinate:
bearing both median carina and lateral carinae on pronotum
; pronotal hoodhood:
term used to describe the modified anterior area of the pronotum, which is sometimes tectiform and sometimes bulbous, with numerous intermediate conditions.
slightly bulbous; paranotumparanotum:
lateral extension of pronotum; may be carinate, explanate, or reflexed
narrowly expanded, anterior margin not projecting anterad; hemelytrahemelytron:
one of the basally thickened forewings of Hemiptera
with claval areaclaval area:
parallel-sided and sharply pointed anal area of hemelytron
weakly developed, almost entirely covered by posterior margin of pronotumpronotum:
dorsal sclerite of the first thoracic segment
; discoidal areadiscoidal area:
area of the forewing posterior to the subcostal area
level, extending beyond the midlength of the hemelytrahemelytron:
one of the basally thickened forewings of Hemiptera
; hypocostal laminaehypocostal lamina:
a ridge produced ventrally along costal margin
extending to the apex of abdomen (Drake 1961Drake 1961:
Drake, C. J. 1961. Some Australian Tingidae (Hemiptera), including new genera and new species. Records of the Australian Museum 25: 107-114., Froeschner 2001Froeschner 2001:
Froeschner, R. C. 2001. Lace Bug Genera of the World, II: Subfamily Tinginae: Tribes Litadeini and Ypsotingini (Heteroptera: Tingidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 611: 1-27).

Distribution

Australasian (Drake 1961Drake 1961:
Drake, C. J. 1961. Some Australian Tingidae (Hemiptera), including new genera and new species. Records of the Australian Museum 25: 107-114., Froeschner 2001Froeschner 2001:
Froeschner, R. C. 2001. Lace Bug Genera of the World, II: Subfamily Tinginae: Tribes Litadeini and Ypsotingini (Heteroptera: Tingidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 611: 1-27) and Afrotropical (South Africa)? [see comments in Froeschner 2001]

Interceptions at US ports of entry 1984 to 2018

Intercepted species	Shipment origin(s)	Inspected host(s)
Chorotingis indigena Drake	Australia	Banksia sp.

See comments in Froeschner 2001Froeschner 2001:
Froeschner, R. C. 2001. Lace Bug Genera of the World, II: Subfamily Tinginae: Tribes Litadeini and Ypsotingini (Heteroptera: Tingidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 611: 1-27 regarding the interception from South Africa

References

Drake 1961Drake 1961:
Drake, C. J. 1961. Some Australian Tingidae (Hemiptera), including new genera and new species. Records of the Australian Museum 25: 107-114., Froeschner 2001Froeschner 2001:
Froeschner, R. C. 2001. Lace Bug Genera of the World, II: Subfamily Tinginae: Tribes Litadeini and Ypsotingini (Heteroptera: Tingidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 611: 1-27

Additional images

Chorotingis images at the Smithsonian