<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Monophylla Spinola 1841</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"/> </head> <body> <h1> Genus <i>Monophylla</i> Spinola</h1> <p> <b> <i>Monophylla terminata</i> (Say):</b> Blackburn (1901) described <i>Elasmocerus picticollis</i> Blackburn (Fig. 6) from a single specimen collected in Victoria (specific location and circumstance not mentioned). Corporaal (1949) synonymised <i>E. picticollis</i> with the North American species <i>Monophylla terminata</i> (Say) after advice from E. A. Chapin who believed that Blackburn’s specimen was probably introduced into Australia with grape vines from America. The absence of subsequently collected Australian specimens suggests that <i>M. terminata</i> did not become established in Australia after it’s detection.</p> <p> <b>Distribution:</b> Eastern North America to Texas and Arizona (Corporaal 1950a).</p> <p> <b>Status:</b> <i>Monophylla terminata</i> is non-native and absent in Australia.</p> </body> </html>