Species Stenogiffardia parvula (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phrynophyes parvula Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [328].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂, Bundaberg, Queensland.

  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 [48].
• Stenogiffardia elongata Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [116].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♀, Richmond, N Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [58] (synonymy of S. elongata )

 

Generic Combinations

• Stenogiffardia parvula (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  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 [58]
• Doratulina parvula (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Vilbaste, J. 1965. On the genus Aconura Leth. Notulae Entomologicae 45: 1-12 [10]

 

Introduction

This long narrow leafhopper occurs as a fully brachypterous and as a macropterous form. The head is extended anteriorly as a narrow, usually ascending, process and the ovipositor extends beyond the apices of the pygofer. The species is known from a number of widely separated sites in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

When alive, metallic green, but fades after death to a shiny testaceous; tegmina and tergites more or less greyish metallic. Face pale sordid brownish, legs more or less marked with brown. Female: elongate, tapering anteriorly and posteriorly. Vertex about 3 times as long as wide between the eyes, anteriorly acuminate, somewhat ascendant. Frons 5-hedral, long-diamond .shaped, with a fifth side anteriorly, about as wide as clypeus, which is a trifle wider than the lorae: the latter do not quite reach the posterior margin of the genae. Tegmina very short truncate. Ultimate segment roundly produced, pygofers elongate, narrow, largely exposing the very long ovipositor. Length 6¼ mm, width about 1 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [328]

 

History of changes

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