Species Ishidaella anemolua (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tetigonia anemolua Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [322].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, 'arboreal'), Kuranda, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Ishidaella anemolua (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Young, D.A. 1986. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) Part 3. Old World Cicadellini. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service 281: 1-639 [128]

 

Introduction

This species, which was misidentified as Kolella pupula (Kirby) by Evans (1966), is smaller than other species of Ishidaella and also differs by having the clavus largely coloured pale yellow whereas in other species the clavus is concolorous with the rest of the tegmen, the costal margin being the only pale part. The species is distributed along the eastern coastline and neighbouring regions of Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Basal half of vertex, pronotum, scutellum, tegmina etc., black, the latter more or less translucent apicoexteriorly. Apical half of vertex posterior margin very narrowly, a broad, slightly arched transverse band across middle of pronotum (sometimes narrower and interrupted in the middle), the clavus (except the interior area) reddish castaneous or dark orange red. Underside pallid except the mesosternum. Abdominal tergites black. Male sternites more or less (generally more) black. Pygofers rather short, rounded, acute apically, about 2½ to 3 times as long as last sternite which is somewhat roundly emarginate. Female sternites pallid except part of the ovipositor. Pygofers about 5 times as long as last sternite, an oblique keel on each side starting from exterobasal angle and meeting in the middle at a little more than one third of the length; not rounded laterally, furnished with white hairs. Last segment truncate, slightly notched medianly. Length 4¼–5 mm. (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 [322]

 

Misidentification

— as Tettigonia pupula Kirby, 1891, Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Australian Museum Memoirs 12: 1–347 [148].

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		02-Feb-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		24-Jun-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)