Species Balocerus orodemnias (Kirkaldy, 1907)
Compiler and date details
28 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Idiocerus orodemnias Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [33].
Type data:
Lectotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: viii.1904, Perkins), Kuranda, Queensland.Subsequent designation references:
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [48].
Generic Combinations
- Balocerus orodemnias (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [47]
Introduction
This species is known from the wet tropics of North Queensland.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Form of [Idiocerus] xantho, but the base of the pronotum is slightly emarginate. Head, pronotum, scutellum and sterna greenish testaceous, much discoloured, especiallv on the head. Tegmina hyaline cinereous, a blackish or dark fuscous spot at junction of clavus, corium and membrane, and another at the apex of the basal part of the subcostal cell; veins greenish testaceous, partly suffused with dark fuscous. Legs greenish testaceous. Tergites dark fuscous at least laterally. Female: last sternite subtruncate. pygophor pale reddish-brown, ovipositor dark. Length 4½ mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).
This species can be distinguished by the pale transverse band on the face and by the brown marking on the pronotum and scutellum in some specimens (Webb 1983).
ID Keys
Webb 1983: 46
Diagnosis References
Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [33]
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [48]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |