Species Anyllis leiala Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Anyllis leiala Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [386].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM quantity, sex unknown (coll.: viii.1904, Perkins), Kuranda, Queensland.
• Aphrophorinella tonnoiri Lallemand, V. 1946. Quatrième note sur les Cercopides. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 82: 189-197 [195].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 6 ♂, 9 ♀, Tasmania: Cradle Mountain, Alpine Creek, Mt Hartz (coll: A.L. Tonnoir); Margate (coll: Muir), Mt Wellington (coll: C. Davis), NSW: Mt Victoria (coll: J.W. Evans).

 

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 [317] (synonymy of A. tonnoiri)

 

Introduction

This is the most common and widespread Australian spittlebug species. It is a regular visitor to lights at night.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Cinereous; with pale yellow pubescence; vertex and pronotum anteriorly with whitish markings, ocelli pale reddish. Tegmina mottled more or less with whitish, rather faintly. Head, pronotum, tegmina, etc., punctured. Length 6.5–6.75 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906)

Length, male, 5.5–6 mm; female, 6.8–8 mm. Rugose. General coloration pale or dark brown with whitish markings. Post-clypeus brown. Pronotum and scutellum yellowish, or, reddish-brown; pronotum with numerous irregularly shaped muscle impressions anteriorly. Tegmen yellowish, or, reddish brown, usually with irregular whitish, or hyaline, areas. An anterior wedge-shaped transverse pale fascia is frequently present and sometimes a posterior fascia adjacent to the costal margin, together with pale areas in several cells. Male genitalia figured. (Evans 1966)

 

ID Keys

Liang & Wang 2012: 1010

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [317]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [386]

Liang, A.P. & Wang, R.R. 2012. A revision of the endemic Australian spittlebug genus Anyllis Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae) with descriptions of two new species. Journal of Natural History 46(15–16): 1005–1023 [1010]

 

General 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 [386]

 

History of changes

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