Species Andes migratorius (Distant, 1907)

Andes migratorius (Distant), adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute

Museums

Regional Maps

• Brixia migratoria Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xli. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 277-295 [279].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Holzinger, W.E. & Gurr, G.M. 2007. Revision of the Australian Andini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with a description of five new species. Zootaxa 1475: 43-59 [48].
• Leirioessa tortricomorpha Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [112].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Holzinger, W.E. & Gurr, G.M. 2007. Revision of the Australian Andini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with a description of five new species. Zootaxa 1475: 43-59 [48].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [35] (synonymy of L. tortricomorpha Kirkaldy)

Generic Combinations

• Leirioessa migratoria (Distant, 1907). —
  Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [35]
• Andes migratorius (Distant, 1907). —
  Muir, F. 1925. The genus Andes Stål (Cixiidae, Homoptera). Philippine Journal of Science 27(2): 201-226 [223]

Introduction

This is the most widespread species of Andes in Australia. It ranges from Palm Island in Torres Strait to near Taree in New South Wales. It has been collected in the margins of rainforests and in open sclerophyll forest. Nothing is known of its biology.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Desert Uplands (DEU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex light or mid brown with two longitudinal, white stripes; frons mid or dark brown, lateral carinae paler, without dots; pronotum light brown; mesonotum light to mid brown; legs light brown; forewing hyaline, colourless, with transverse band 1 wide, mid to dark brown, extending to immediately basad of pterostigma, covering fork CuA1+CuA2 and terminating at CuP, forewing with transverse band 2 narrow, mid to dark brown, around basal cell reaching into clavus, forewing with mid or dark brown marks scattered across wing, apical half of wing with light brown patches; veins concolorous with cells, tubercles mid brown, pterostigma light brown; abdominal sternites light or mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.6-6.6 mm, ♀ 6.1-7.1 mm. Head: Vertex 0.8-1.0 x as long as wide. Junction of vertex and frons slightly angular and distinctly produced in lateral view. Frons 2.5-3.1 x longer than wide; median carina incomplete, covering 1/3 to 1/2 of length of frons; lateral carinae not extending laterally, not concealing base of antennae; median ocellus separated from frontoclypeal suture by less than its own diameter. Rostrum slightly or distinctly surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Forewing 2.4-2.7 x longer than wide; CuA1+CuA2 forking 1/5-1/6 away from apex of clavus; costa with 11-16 tubercles. Hind leg: tibia with 2-6 small to medium sized lateral spines; 1st tarsomere with 8-9 apical teeth; 2nd tarsomere with 7-8 apical teeth and 1-3 very fine setae underneath row of apical teeth. Male genitalia: Aedeagus with long, very slender cucullus, rim of cucullus smooth, in left lateral view convex; unarmed; virga elongated, sinuate.
Remarks. Andes migratorius can be distinguished from all other Australian Andini by the unique combination of a long, very slender cucullus and an unspotted face. (Löcker et al. 2007)

ID Keys

Löcker et al. 2007: 45

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Holzinger, W.E. & Gurr, G.M. 2007. Revision of the Australian Andini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with a description of five new species. Zootaxa 1475: 43-59 [48]

General References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Holzinger, W.E. & Gurr, G.M. 2007. Revision of the Australian Andini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with a description of five new species. Zootaxa 1475: 43-59 [48]

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