Species Apsadaropteryx elongatulus (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Apsadaropteryx elongatulus (Kirkaldy), syntype male.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Apsadaropteryx elongatulus (Kirkaldy), syntype female.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Apsadaropteryx elongatulus, hindwing.

© Copyright Vladimir Gnezdilov, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Issus elongatulus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [438].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ (coll.: viii.1904, arboreal), Cairns, Queensland; BPBM ♀ (coll: viii.1904, arboreal), Cairns, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Apsadaropteryx elongatulus (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [104]

Introduction

The only known species has only been recorded from the wet tropics of North Queensland. The female syntype bears a "holotype" label but no holotype exists, this label being added to the specimen probably in 1968 when the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station collection was moved to the Bishop Museum and it has not been validated by publication (see Medler 1987). The male syntype is therefore available to be designated as lectotype.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Pale greyish cinereous, vertex and pronotum a little marked or suffused with green. Veins pale olive brown. Elongate, narrow; head pronotum and scutellum not, or scarcely, granulate. Anterior margin of vertex truncately carinate, anterior to this (dorsally) is visible a small, rounded, part of the frons. Frons a little wider posteriorly than anteriorly, furnished with a circular carina and a medio-longitudinal straight one; posterolateral frontal angles rounded. Tegmina narrow, elongate, not so reticulate as in the preceding species [now in Chlamydopteryx Kirkaldy], costa little widened, the radial vein forks almost immediately after its inception, the outer branch sinuate; the median vein forks apical of the middle, outer branch reforking; the cubital forks about the middle. Length: 5½–6 mm, width 2–2½ mm. (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 [438]

General References

Medler, J.T. 1987. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XI. Taxonomic notes on Kirkaldy Types in the Bishop Museum, with illustrations of the genitalia of male lectotypes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 27: 115-125 [115]

History of changes