Genus Apsadaropteryx Kirkaldy, 1907

Apsadaropteryx elongatulus (Kirkaldy), type species of Apsadaropteryx.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Apsadaropteryx Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [103].

  Type species:

   Issus elongatulus Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

Introduction

A monotypic genus from the wet tropics of North Queensland. The species included is a neat, compact form with narrow brown tegmina.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Differs from the closely related Chlamydopteryx by rather elongate fore wings with sinuate radial vein and the venation of the hind wings: R bifurcate, M, CuP, 1A, 2A simple, CuA with five branches, postcubitus tfour branched; single crossveins between second branch of R and M, between M and first branch of CuA, between CuP and postcubitus, and between postcubitus and 1A; fifth branch of CuA and CuP are fused and thickened (Gnezdilov & Fletcher 2010).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. & Gnezdilov, V.M. (2010) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Issidae described from Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/issidae/iss00.htm

Diagnosis References

Gnezdilov, V.M. & Fletcher, M.J. 2010. A review of the Australian genera of the planthopper family Issidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) with description of an unusual new species of Chlamydopteryx Kirkaldy. Zootaxa 2366: 35–45 [39]

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