Species Ishidaella richmondensis (Distant, 1917)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tettigoniella richmondensis Distant, W.L. 1917. Descriptions of some Ethiopian and Australian Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 20: 186-191 [191].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Richmond River, New South Wales.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Young, D.A. 1965. Cicadelline types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(4): 163-199 [190].
• Cicadella turneri Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers from Tasmania and Queensland. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1941: 27-30 [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: iv.1935, R.E. Turner), Tamborine Mtns, Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [147] (synonymy of C. turneri )

 

Generic Combinations

• Kolla richmondensis (Distant, 1917). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [147]
• Ishidaella richmondensis (Distant, 1917). —
  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 has been recorded from SE Queensland and NE New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum and scutellum ochraceous; vertex of head with a sinuated anterior marginal fascia and two large longitudinal spots at base black; pronotum with the lateral marginal areas, and a large triangular spot at base, its apex more narrowly connected with the anterior margin, black; scutellum with two large discal black spots extending from the anterior margin to the transverse incision; body beneath and legs ochraceous, face with a central longitudinal black line; tegmina dark indigo blue, with a narrow subcostal pale ochraceous margin; vertex of head broad, moderately anteriorly conically produced; scutellum very strongly transversely incised near middle. Long., incl. tegm., 8.5 mm (Distant 1917).

Young (1986) provides illustrations of the male genitalia.

 

ID Keys

Young 1986: 128

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1917. Descriptions of some Ethiopian and Australian Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 20: 186-191 [191]

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 [125, 128]

 

History of changes

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