Species Thamnophryne nysias Kirkaldy, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thamnophryne nysias Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [61].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), 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 [47].
• Tasmanotettix maculata Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [12].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll: ii.1936, J.W. Evans), Hobart, Tasmania.

 

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 [232]

 

Introduction

This species is widespread in Australia and has numerous undescribed species to which it is related. Identification of the various species is dependent on examination of the male genitalia although the markings of the head and tegmina are also helpful for some of the species.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Jarrah Forest (JF), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head pale brownish testaceous; vertex irregularly suffused with fuscous; frons with a few concentric curved fuscous lines which are often much abbreviated towards the middle of the frons, often almost obsolete. Base of genae (around the antennae) dark fuscous. Pronotum dark fuscous, yellowish brown laterally, comparatively thickly, but irregularly, punctured with yellowish brown. Tegmina milky hyaline, veins dark fuscous, many of them more or less suffused, especially the crossveins at the apex of the subcostal cell and the apical veins apically. Many of the cells with a more or less elongate fuscous spot in the middle, the brachial cell with two. Legs testaceous, hind tibiae with blackish spots at the base of the bristles. Sterna and abdomen below mostly dark fuscous. Vertex short, rounded apically, forming a curve with the eyes which are rather wider than the maximum width of the vertex. Frons longer than wide, tempora very narrow, almost obsolete. Clypeus as wide basally as the frons apically, constricted a little just apical of the base, widening as much towards the apex. Male genital segments strongly tufted. Length 4½ 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 [61]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	20-Oct-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)