Species Deltocephalus chlorippe (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phrynomorphus (Conosanus) chlorippe Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [60].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: ix-xii.1904, Koebele), Bundaberg, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1993. Lectotype designations and new synonymies for G. W. Kirkaldy's Australian Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) held in the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. General and Applied Entomology 25: 35-59 [40].

 

Generic Combinations

• Deltocephalus chlorippe (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [242]

 

Introduction

Kirkaldy (1907) notes that the ovipositor extends beyond the pygofer quite considerably and this would probably place this species more appropriately in the Chiasmini. The species has been recorded along the eastern seaboard of Australia from SE Queensland to near Hobart in Tasmania.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Bright yellow, tegminal veins concolorous. Frons pale brownish, obscurely suffused with darker tint, and with slender, concentric, curved, dark fuscous lines. Genae. lora, clypeus, etc, pallid, the last named a little fuscate medianly. Metanotum, sterna, (mostly) and basal half of abdomen above and beneath (except the lateral margins) blackish. Basal half of fore and middle femora blackish, hind femora dorsally black (except apex), hind tibiae longitudinally lined with black. Vertex triangular, as long in front of the eyes as behind, wider than long, sulculate entirely, flat. Ocelli remote from the eyes. Frons longer than wide, with a small tubercle at the base medianly, a little wider apically than the clypeus basally; lora nearly touching the genae apically; tempora narrow. Tegmina short, without appendix; not reaching apex of abdomen, apically rounded, only one subapical cell. Female: last segment produced a little triangularly (very obtusely) in the middle; the pale brownish ovipositor is much longer than the elongate pygophor. Length 3 1/3 mm. The frons varies from piceous to pallid. This is a pretty little species and rare. (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 [60–61]

 

History of changes

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