Species Soracte apollonos Kirkaldy, 1907

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• Soracte apollonos Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: viii.1904: holotype by monotypy), Cairns, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This delicately marked species is distributed across the tropical top end of Australia from Cairns in the wet tropics of North Queensland to Dampierland in the northern part of Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Brownish olivaceous; anterior margin of vertex, an upright cross on the same, the lower limb dividing into two almost contiguous limbs, four longitudinal lines (a submedian and a sublateral on each side) and a median T-shaped line on pronotum, seven spots on scutellum (two with an olivaceous speck each in the middle); a median line and numerous concentric, curved, transverse lines on frons; genae, clypeus and lora (except some olivaceous brown markings), pale yellowish testaceous. Abdomen beneath mostly dark olivaceous brown. Tegmina subhyaline, tinged with olivaceous, veins widely colourless, margined narrowly with dark olive brown, sometimes a little suffused, especially the middle apical cell. Female: last sternite roundly emarginate, the sides bluntly prominent. Pygopher elongate, narrow with blackish bristles. Length 4 3/8 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [55–56]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	20-Oct-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)