Species Neovulturnus vaedulcis (Kirkaldy, 1907)

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• Vulturnus vaedulcis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [84].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, Perkins), Cairns, Queensland; BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: ix-xii.1904), Bundaberg, Queensland; BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: i-ii.1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales
  Comment: The type series also includes an unknown number of nymphs from some or all of the type localities.
• Vulturnus vappa Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [85].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: i-ii.1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1194] (synonymy of V. vappa)

 

Generic Combinations

• Neovulturnus vaedulcis (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [151]

 

Introduction

This beautifully enamelled species is highly variable in colour and reasonably common along the eastern coastal parts of mainland Australia from near Cairns in North Queensland to the Sydney basin of New South Wales and inland as far as Orange NSW. The male was described as V. vaedulcis while the female was described as V. vappa Kirkaldy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Black; vertex, pronotum and scutellum thickly speckled with pale yellowish brown. Frons margined basally with yellowish. Tegmina pale yellowish brown heavily veined and marked with black; apex of costal cell and of the adjoining subapical white, spotshaped. Fore legs and bristles, &c., of the others, more or less pale. Vertex not longer than pronotum, rounded in front. Length 3–3¼ mm. Nymph: Vertex laterally spinose just above the eyes (Kirkaldy 1907).

V. vappa — Very close to V. vaedulcis, but paler and broader. Tegmina with a large colourless patch on the costa, &c.; apical parts largely colourless. Length 4 mm. (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 [84–85]

 

History of changes

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