Species Chlamydopteryx vulturnus (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Chlamydopteryx vulturnus (Kirkaldy), adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Issus vulturnus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [437].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vi.1904, arboreal), Brisbane, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Chlamydopteryx vulturnus (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [103]

Introduction

This species was described from the Brisbane region of SE Queensland. Melichar (1914: 105) recorded the species from "Nongkodjadjar" (=Nongkedjadjar, Java) in Indonesia but this is a highly dubious record and Melichar's specimen needs to be re-examined. In his original description, Kirkaldy (1906) provides a note on the colour and shape of the male “pygofers”. This indicates that he examined at least one male. The specimen labelled as “holotype” has not been validated as such by publication (see Medler 1987) and was regarded as a syntype by Gnezdilov & Fletcher (2010). If a male specimen can be found in BPBM matching the original collection details, then it is available to be designated as lectotype.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Vertex, pronotum and scutellum testaceous of various degrees of sordidness; frons and clypeus sordid brown. Tegmina dirty brownish, a transverse band (a little basal of the middle), the commissure, etc., dirty whitish. Legs dirty brownish, paler in places. Beneath sordid. Wings dark smoky. Vertex slightly transverse (apical margin very obtusely angulate), narrower than an eye. Frons with a round sublateral carina, and also a median longitudinal one, both slight but noticeable; posterolateral angles rounded, posterior margin roundly emarginate; outside the round carina are small granules. Eyes, in profile, occupying nearly the whole of the head as far as the antennae. Pronotum granulate, medianly carinate. Tegmina about 3 times as wide (max.) as head and eyes together; veins strong, with numerous strong transverse veinlets (including costa and clavus). Cubital and median veins forked at about the middle. Male: Pygofers black, polished, short, acute. Length: 6 mill., maximum width 3 mill. (Kirkaldy 1906).

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [437]

General References

Gnezdilov, V.M. & Fletcher, M.J. 2010. A review of the Australian genera of the planthopper family Issidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) with description of an unusual new species of Chlamydopteryx Kirkaldy. Zootaxa 2366: 35–45 [39]

Medler, J.T. 1987. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XI. Taxonomic notes on Kirkaldy Types in the Bishop Museum, with illustrations of the genitalia of male lectotypes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 27: 115-125 [115]

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