Species Batracomorphus nervoviridis Evans, 1972

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• Batrachomorphus nervoviridis Evans, J.W. 1972. Some leafhoppers from New Guinea, Australia and Thailand belonging to the subfamily Jassinae and a new genus from New Guinea referred to a new subfamily, the Acostemminae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 14(4): 647-662 [651].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM 9767 ♂ (27.v.1963, J. Sedlacek, 255 m, malaise trap), Mt Gil[u]we, New Guinea
  Comment: Evans (1972) gives the altitude as 255 m but Knight & Webb (1986) give it as 2550 m which seems more likely since Mt Giluwe is the second highest peak in Papua New Guinea.

Introduction

This New Guinean species was tentatively recorded from the wet tropics of North Queensland by Knight & Webb (1986) on the basis of a single female showing the distinctive colour features of the species, particularly dark brown spines on the hind tibia. A male is needed to confirm the Australian record, however.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

General coloration dull olive green. Face of head yellow, pinkish posterior to slightly arched antennal ledges which continue onto frontoclypeus. Crown pinkish with two circular black markings, sloping steeply towards pronotum posteriorly. Pronotum transversely striated, pale brown anteriorly with numerous small brown markings; posteriorly grayish brown. Scutellum dull yellow, transversely striated posteriorly. Tegmen dull green, apical cells and appendix brown; clavus rugose, punctate; veins in relief. Spines on one row on hind tibia alternately black and pale yellow. Length ♂ 8.5 mm (Evans 1972).

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1972. Some leafhoppers from New Guinea, Australia and Thailand belonging to the subfamily Jassinae and a new genus from New Guinea referred to a new subfamily, the Acostemminae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 14(4): 647-662 [651]

General References

Knight, W.J. & Webb, M.D. 1986. The pacific Iassine cicadellid genus Thalattoscopus (Homoptera). Journal of Natural History 20: 1051-1082 [1081]

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