Species Alocephalus ianthe (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dorycephalus ianthe Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [340].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: ix.-xii.1904, Koebele), Bundaberg, Queensland.
• Dorycephalus trilineatus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [341].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown, New South Wales.
• Anacephaleus simplex Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera) Part 4. — (Ledridae, Ulopidae and Euscelidae, Paradorydiini). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 37-50 [44].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T-14423 ♀, Mordialloc, Victoria.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [89] (synonymy of D. trilineatus and A. simplex)

 

Generic Combinations

• Cephalelus ianthe (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [89]
• Alocephalus ianthe (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [93]

 

Introduction

This nicely reticulated little leafhopper is recorded along the east coast of mainland Australia from Bundaberg in SE Queensland to near Melbourne in southern Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Testaceous with a ferruginous tinge on the head. Abdomen mostly black above, punctured very finely and closely with golden yellow. Head nearly twice as long as wide, about four times as long as the. pronotum. Length: 6¾ mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

♀ lacking wings 6–6.8 mm; ♂ lacking wings 5.8 mm (Evans 1977).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [93]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [340]

 

History of changes

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