Species Alseis osborni Kirkaldy, 1907
Alseis osborni Kirkaldy, adult.
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Species Alseis osborni Kirkaldy, 1907
Compiler and date details
2 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher.
- Alseis osborni Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [38].
Type data:
Lectotype BPBM 4490 ♀ (coll.: vi.1904, Perkins), Brisbane, Queensland.Subsequent designation references:
Stevens, M.M. 1991. Revision of the genus Alseis Kirkaldy (Homoptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae) with descriptions of six new species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5: 43-59 [46].
Introduction
This species is known from a widely disjunct distribution in Australia extending from the North Kimberley in Western Australia to the wet tropics of North Queensland to SE Queensland. It was presumably named in honour of Herbert Osborn who published extensively on North American leafhoppers between 1897 and 1938 and who was therefore a contemporary of Kirkaldy.
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld, WA: Northern Kimberley (NK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Whitish-testaceous, very finely mottled with brown, spotted with dark fuscous, a large suffused fuscous inverted arrow on anterior part of pronotum. Tegmina irregularly mottled and spotted with fuscous. Fore and middle legs blackish-brown, obscurely spotted with pallid; hind legs fuscous, obscurely marked with darkish. Length (female) 8¾ mill. (Kirkaldy 1907).
The male genitalia were described and illustrated by Stevens (1991).
ID Keys
Stevens 1991: 46
Diagnosis References
Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [38]
Stevens, M.M. 1991. Revision of the genus Alseis Kirkaldy (Homoptera: Cicadelloidea: Cicadellidae) with descriptions of six new species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5: 43-59 [46–50]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20-Sep-2011 | 20-Sep-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |