Species Anzygina sidnica (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Erythroneura sidnica Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [69].

  Type data:

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

  Subsequent designation references:

  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 [166].

 

Generic Combinations

• Zygina sidnica (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Ghauri, M.S.K. 1980. A new species of Zygina from Papua New Guinea, and records of some leafhopper and planthopper species (Homoptera: Cicadelloidea and Delphacidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7: 207-209 [209]
• Anzygina sidnica (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  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 [166]

 

Introduction

This slender yellow species has been found along almost the entire eastern Australian coastline from the wet tropics of North Queensland to Melbourne in southern Victoria as well as from the north coast of Tasmania.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pale yellowish, immaculate, paler beneath. Head shaped as in E[rythroneura] dentata (Gillette), but more rounded and the eyes more decumbent on the pronotum, which is posteriorly slightly emarginate. Length abt. 3 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

Pale yellow, brighter along claval margin. Male genitalia. Pygofer roundly truncate apically with basal cleft and scattered fine hair setae on apical half and ventrally to basal cleft. Dorsal appendage articulated internally with pygofer, short, triangular and curved ventrally. Aedeagus, in posterior view, with single elongate shaft tapering from base to apex and bearing a pair of short- to medium-length apical processes directed lateroventrally. Aedeagus, in lateral view with shaft distinctly angled posteriorly before apex with preapical gonopore situated posteriorly at point of angulation (Fletcher & Larivière 2009).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher & Larivière 2009: 166

 

Diagnosis References

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 [167]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [69]

 

History of changes

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05-Dec-2019		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)