Species Embolophora astyanax (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Delphax astyanax Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [161].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Mittagong, New South Wales.

Generic Combinations

• Liburnia astyanax (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Metcalf, Z.P. 1943. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea. Part 3, Araeopidae (Delphacidae). Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 552 pp. [351]
• Embolophora astyanax (Kirkaldy, 1907).

Introduction

This species, which was described from macropterous and brachypterous males from Mittagong, New South Wales, was listed under the genus Liburnia by Metcalf (1943) without explanation. Its true generic affinities need to be determined. As noted by Kirkaldy (1907), it has a remarkable aedeagus which is quadrifid apically.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Closely allied to D. puella [= Coronocella sinhalana (Kirkaldy)], but smaller, the genae and scutellum entirely black, and the lateral margins of the frons more rounded laterally. In the short-winged form, the tegmina are subtruncate, and broadly margined with white apically. Spur with about 14 spines. Male pygophor exceedingly remarkable. The anal tube is elevated and shaped somewhat like a square hood. The lateral margins of the pygophor close to the anal tube project acutely and somewhat curvedly. Genital styles truncate apically, the angles being acute and pronoment. The aedeagus has a crown of 4 long spines (or is apically elongately quadrifid in other words). Length about 1 7/8 (brach.), 2 1/4 (macr.) 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 [161]

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