Species Horouta aristarche (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Driotura aristarche Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [59].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: i.1905), Mittagong, New South Wales.

  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 [37].

 

Generic Combinations

• Horouta aristarche (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Fletcher, M.J. 2004. A revision of the genus Horouta Knight with description of two new species and notes on other species of Deltocephalinae (Hemipter: Cicadellidae). General and Applied Entomology 33: 45-54 [49]
• Deltocephalus aristarche (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [241]

 

Introduction

This species, which is distributed along the eastern coastline of Australia from SE Queensland to Victoria, is only known in a brachypterous form. It is reasonably distinctive in colouration with pale transverse bands on the hind portions of the pronotum, tegmina and, usually, abdominal tergite 9.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Male : vertex whitish-testaceous, heavily barred with piceous frons whitish-testaceous, with curved concentric lines, which are much broader than the interstitial paleness; genae, clypeus and lora whitish-testaceous with a large dark fuscous spot on each. Anterior half of pronotum dark fuscous with a few tiny testaceous markings, posterior half whitish. Tegmina fuscous, veins margined both sides with piceous, apical margin broadly whitish. Fore and middle femora piceous, multi-annulate with testaceous, hind femora testaceous with irregular, longitudinal, fuscous stripes. Abdomen piceous with 4 or 5 rows of tiny testaceous specks, last tergite with the apical margin whitish-testaceous. Female: head testaceous, suffused with pale fuscous. Vertex not quite as long as wide, angulate, a large dark fuscous spot on each side of the middle near the base, and interior to these a short dark fuscous line on each side a little anterior. Pronotum whitish, anterior half testaceous with fuscous markings. Tegmina whitish varying to fuscous with white apical margin. Abdomen above fuscous and whitish testaceous, almost irrorate. Abdomen below dark fuscous with a few testaceous markings. Frons brownish testaceous with dark fuscous curved concentric lines not touching medianly. Genae, lora and clypeus browni.sh testaceous, each with a fuscous spot. Legs as in the male. Length 2 (male) to 2½ (female) mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

Head pale beige in female, whitish in male, with extensive dark brown to black markings on anteclypeus, lora, frontoclypeus and vertex. Pronotum dark brown anteriorly with light brown pattern, more extensive in female, and broadly white posteriorly. Tegmen pattern with dark brown and light brown except for broad white band across posterior margin. Abdomen dark brown with lines of pale spots. Male genitalia: aedeagus elongate, narrow and curved anterodorsally, bearing two subequal elongate basal processes which cross over each other in lateral view (Fletcher 2004)

 

ID Keys

Fletcher 2004: 46

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 2004. A revision of the genus Horouta Knight with description of two new species and notes on other species of Deltocephalinae (Hemipter: Cicadellidae). General and Applied Entomology 33: 45-54 [49]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [59]

 

History of changes

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