Species Batracomorphus dryas (Kirkaldy, 1906)
Compiler and date details
9 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Eurinoscopus dryas Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [348].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: Koebele, ix-xii.1904. It is possible that Knight's (1983) reference to a "holotype" may constitute a lectotype designation by default), Bundaberg, Queensland.
Generic Combinations
- Batracomorphus dryas (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [205]
Introduction
This species is known from southeastern Queensland and recorded from "New South Wales" without details by Knight (1983) who also recorded it from New Caledonia.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Knight (1983) recorded the species from New South Wales and Queensland without providing locality details.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Forewings sometimes very faintly mottled with dark brown. Male pygophore processes slender, directed posteriorly or dorsoposteriorly, curving medially, apex bifid with branches short and of approximately equal length or ventral one slightly larger, each acute apically. Styles with apical process expanded over distal half, tapering to acute dorsally hooked apex. Aedeagus simple; shaft directed dorsally; gonopore extending approximately three fourths length of shaft; anterior incision extending slightly more basad than gonopore. Length ♂ 4.24–4.72 mm (Knight 1983).
ID Keys
Knight 1983: 37–50
Diagnosis References
Knight, W.J. 1983. The leafhopper genus Batracomorphus (Cicadellidae) in the eastern Oriental and Australian Regions. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 47(2): 27-210 [60]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 02-Dec-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |