Species Anzygina lubra (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Erythroneura lubra Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [364] [nomen dubium].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀ (coll.: i. 1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales.

 

Generic Combinations

• Zygina lubra (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1232]
• Anzygina lubra (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Fletcher, M.J. & Larivière, M.-C. 2009. Anzygina, a new genus for some Australasian microleafhopper species formerly placed in the genus Zygina Fieber (Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini). Australian Journal of Entomology 48(2): 164-176 [175] (nomen dubium)

 

Introduction

This species is apparently based on a single female syntype which cannot reliably be identified with known males. It is clearly congeneric with species of Anzygina but was treated as a nomen dubium by Fletcher & Larivière (2009).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pale yellowish, rather sordid; rostrum pale ferruginous. Tergites (except genital segment and narrowly laterally) black. Tegmina hyaline milky, veins pale yellow. Vertex at base wider than an eye. Length: 3 mill. (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 [364]

 

History of changes

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