Species Massila walkeri Kirkaldy, 1906

Massila walkeri Kirkaldy, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Massila walkeri Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [459].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM 5440A ♂ (coll.: vi.1904), Brisbane, Queensland.
  Paralectotype(s) BPBM 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (coll: vi.1904), Brisbane, Queensland; BPBM 2 ♂, 2 ♀ (coll: vii-xii.1904), Bundaberg, Queensland
  Comment: Medler (1987) also recognised 2 male and 7 female specimens from Bundaberg, vi.1904 in BMNH as being paralectotypes but these nine specimens do not match Kirkaldy’s (1906) original type data and are not part of the type series.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Medler, J.T. 1987. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XI. Taxonomic notes on Kirkaldy Types in the Bishop Museum, with illustrations of the genitalia of male lectotypes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 27: 115-125 [124].

Introduction

This species is known from the Sydney Basin of New South Wales and SE Queensland but it has also been collected on Rhizophora stylosa Griff. (Rhizophoraceae) mangroves at Saunders Beach in the northern coastal portion of the North Brigalow Belt (BBN) in Queensland.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Agrees fairly well with the description of M. sicca, except that the transverse veins in the tegmina, specks in the reticulations, claval granules (at least in part) are pale sanguineous; this is so conspicuous that Walker could hardly have had this species before him when describing sicca, unless he had alcoholic material. Length: 7 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 [459–460]

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