Species Aristyllis omphale Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Aristyllis omphale Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [419].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex unknown (coll.: vii.1904; possible holotype by monotypy), Nelson (=Gordonvale), Queensland
  Comment: This syntype may be a holotype by monotypy.

Introduction

As with other species of the genus, examination of the original type material (which may be a single specimen) is required to establish its identity.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

Differs from the typical species by being shorter and broader and differently coloured; vertex shorter.
Vertex, pronotum anteriorly in the middle, apex of clavus, pale ferruginous. Frons, clypeus, pronotum anterolaterally, anterior and posterior third of scutellum, sterna, abdomen, etc black or blackish. Middle third of scutellum bright ferruginous, posterior margin of pronotum testaceous. Tegmina hyaline, pale yellowish brown, basal margin narrowly, a spot near middle of costal area, and a stripe across the clavus (nearer apex than base), opaque white; apex of costal cell more or less sanguineous, a large metallic bluish-black spot just basal of this. Anterior legs and intermediate and posterior femora more or less black, anterior femora not pallidly banded posteriorly, intermediate and posterior tibiae and tarsi widely pallid, at least apically. Frons banded as in the type. Vertex shorter than in the type, the apical angle of the disk rectangular; rostrum reaching to apex of posterior coxae. Length: 4 mill to apex of abdomen; 5.5 to apex of tegmina.

In his key to the species of Aristyllis Kirkaldy (1906) differentiates this species by the scutellum being anteriorly black and by the white markings on the fore wing.

ID Keys

Kirkaldy 1906: 419

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 [419]

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