Species Alodeltocephalus longinquus (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Alodeltocephalus longinquus (Kirkaldy), adult male.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phrynomorphus longinquus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [326].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: i.1905), Sydney, New South Wales.

  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 [44].

Generic Combinations

• Euscelis longinquus (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [17]
• Phrynomorphus (Conosanus) longinquus Kirkaldy, 1906. —
  Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [60]
• Alodeltocephalus longinquus (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [243]

Introduction

This species is widespread in southeastern Australian from South Australia to the New South Wales north coast. Evans (1966) synonymised Alodeltocephalus obliquus (Evans) with it and stated that the species was also widespread in New Zealand. However, Knight (1975) recognised both species as being valid and found no material of either species in the New Zealand collections. The species was excluded from the New Zealand fauna by Larivière, et al. (2010). Evans (1966) referred to a type from Bundaberg but no mention of this locality was made by Kirkaldy (1906) who listed the species only from Sydney and Mittagong. Knight (1975) listed a holotype male from Sydney (i.1905) and a paratype male with the same data but ii.1905. Fletcher & Condello (1993) listed 9 males, 3 females and one specimen without an abdomen as constituting the type series and designated the specimen listed by Knight (1975) as the "holotype" as lectotype.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

General References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [243]

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 [44]

Knight, W.J. 1975. Deltocephalinae of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 2(2): 169-208 [191]

Larivière, M.-C., Fletcher, M.J. & Larochelle, A. 2010. Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera): catalogue. Fauna of New Zealand 63: 1-228 [130]

History of changes