Species Arawa taedia (Kirkaldy, 1906)
Compiler and date details
15 June 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Phrynomorphus taedius Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [326].
Type data:
Lectotype BPBM 4395 ♀ (coll.: xi.1904), Bundaberg, Queensland.
Generic Combinations
- Euscelis taedius (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [17] - Deltocephalus taedius (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [238]
Introduction
The identity of this species is uncertain as it is based on a female type in a genus in which the species can only be reliably identified by reference to the male genitalia. Day & Fletcher (1994) listed it as a nomen dubium but raised the possibility that it is the same species as Knight (1975) described as Arawa pulchra Knight which has not yet been identified from Queensland. However, as pointed out by Knight (1975), there are also undescribed species in eastern Australia which confuse this possibility.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Vertex shorter than wide, slightly angulately rounded apically. Frons a little flatter, temples wider. Clypeus scarcely wider than lorae, genae less angulate. Pronotum with short but noticeable lateral margins. Coloring very similar [to Phrynomorphus longuinquus Kirkaldy] but vertex, pronotum and scutellum with only obscure scattered pale brown mottlings. Underside darker, anterior femora striped transversely with black. Length: 3¾ 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 [326–327]
General References
Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1206]
Knight, W.J. 1975. Deltocephalinae of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 2(2): 169-208 [180]
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