Species Toya lazulis (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Delphax lazulis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [155].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland; BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904), Redlynch, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Toya lazulis (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [58]

Introduction

This species is a common grass dwelling planthopper, reasonably widely distributed in eastern Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Male pygophor blackish, subrotundate viewed end-on, the lateral margins somewhat sinuate; anal tube with a projection on each side, pointing downwards. Genital styles not unlike those of dryope, but the outer apical angle blunter. Length 1 7/8 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907)

ID Keys

Kirkaldy 1907: 150–151

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [155]

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