Euaulana

Taxonomy

Euaulana Drake, 1945

Type species: Euaulana ferritincta Drake

Diagnostic characters

Head long, clypeus surpassing apical half of first antennal segment; cephalic spinescephalic spines:
a spine on the head
present; antennae without setiferoussetiferous:
bearing bristles, as in "setiferous antennae"
spines; bucculaebucculae:
an elevated ridge on either side of the first labial segment
closed anteriorly; rostrumrostrum:
a beak or snout, applied especially to the piercing mouth-parts of bugs and elongated snouts of weevils
long, extending beyond second abdominal segment; ventral side of abdomen with mediolongitudinal groove; pronotumpronotum:
dorsal sclerite of the first thoracic segment
tricarinate; pronotal hoodhood:
term used to describe the modified anterior area of the pronotum, which is sometimes tectiform and sometimes bulbous, with numerous intermediate conditions.
absent; paranotumparanotum:
lateral extension of pronotum; may be carinate, explanate, or reflexed
narrowly expanded, less than half the width of pronotal disc, not oriented subvertically, anterior margin not projecting anterad; hemelytrahemelytra:
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 hemelytra; hypocostal laminae extending to the apex of abdomen (Drake 1945Drake 1945:
Drake, C. J. 1945. New Tingidae. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 44: 96-100., 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 and Ruhoff 1960Drake and Ruhoff 1960:
Drake, C. J., and F. Ruhoff, A. 1960. Lace-bug genera of the world (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 112., 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, Guilbert 2019Guilbert 2019:
Guilbert, E. 2019. Lace bugs database - http://www.hemiptera-databases.com/tingidae)

Interceptions at US ports of entry 1984 to 2018

Intercepted species	Shipment origin(s)	Inspected host(s)
Euaulana ferritincta Drake	Australia	Banksia hookeriana
Euaulana tasmaniae Drake	Australia	Banksia hookeriana
Euaulana austrina Drake	Australia	Banksia sp.
Euaulana sp.*	Australia	Banksia sp.

*One other specimen identified as Euaulana sp. was intercepted from South Africa on host Protea sp. This is outside its known distribution range.

References

Drake and Ruhoff 1960Drake and Ruhoff 1960:
Drake, C. J., and F. Ruhoff, A. 1960. Lace-bug genera of the world (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 112., 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, Guilbert 2019Guilbert 2019:
Guilbert, E. 2019. Lace bugs database - http://www.hemiptera-databases.com/tingidae

Additional images

Euaulana images at the Smithsonian