Species Aplanodes australiae (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Criomorphus australiae Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [131].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: xii.1904, Perkins), Brisbane, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Aplanodes australiae (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [22]

Introduction

The only species of Aplanodes was redescribed by Fennah (1965) who provided figures of the head, tegmen and male and female genitalia. The illustration of the tegmen shows an arcuate dark marking in the apical part beyond the apex of the clavus but Kirkaldy's (1907) original description just states "Tegmina hyaline". Fennah (1965) listed a male and a female specimen from near Brisbane in SE Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Differs from most of the other species included in Criomorphus by the frontal keels being separated, though close together, during their entire length; the antennae reach beyond the base of the clypeus. Dark fuscous or pitchy, frons and legs a little paler, the former with five or six tiny paler spots on each side; clypeal keels and lateral keels of frons, antennae, markings on legs, &c., brownish testaceous. Tegmina hyaline. Male pygophore pitchy. Length 3.3 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907)

Anal segment of male rather large, apical margin transverse, lateroapical angle of left side strongly produced ventrad in a stout subspinose process. Pygofer rather long, dorsolateral angles not produced, lateral margins in profile convex; diaphragm with dorsal margin deeply concave, narrow in middle portion, and strongly produced caudad in a pair of spinose processes, which are closely apposed basally but diverge moderately towards apex; no medioventral process present. Aedeagus long, porrect caudad, slightly deflexed at tip, a small tooth dorsally near middle, a row along middle of right side, and a few ventro-laterally on right; orifice ventrally at apex, rather long. Genital styles moderately long, rather narrow and tapering, directed dorsad and upcurved apically, outer margin shallowly convex, inner margin concave with a small bluntly angulate eminence in distal third. Seventh (pregenital) sternite of female relatively large, horse-shoe shaped, flattened dorsoventrally, each limb acute at apex. First valvifers, as exposed in ventral view, narrow, of approximately equal width throughout, not at all produced mesad at base. (Fennah 1965)

ID Keys

Fennah 1965: 4

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [22]

General References

Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [22]

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