Species Aufiterna kirkaldyi Jacobi, 1921

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Regional Maps

• Aufidus kirkaldyi Jacobi, A. 1921. Kritische Bermerkungen über die Cercopidae. (Rhynchota Homoptera). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 87: 1-65 [50] [replacement name; for Aufidus ptyeloides (Kirkaldy, 1906)].
• Aufiterna ptyeloides Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [382] [junior homonym; of Aufidus ptyeloides (Breddin, 1902)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Aufiterna kirkaldyi Jacobi, 1921. —
  Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. A review of the Australian aphrophorid spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42(1): 84-93
• Aufidus ptyeloides (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Jacobi, A. 1921. Kritische Bermerkungen über die Cercopidae. (Rhynchota Homoptera). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 87: 1-65 [50]

 

Introduction

Jacobi (1921) synonymised Aufiterna with Aufidus thereby creating homonymy between Aufiterna ptyeloides Kirkaldy and Notoscarta ptyeloides Breddin which had previously been placed in Aufidus. He therefore created the new name Aufidus kirkaldyi Jacobi for A. ptyeloides Kirkaldy. Evans (1966), in rejecting the generic synonymy, invalidly reverted to the original combination (ICZN Art. 59.3). Both Kirkaldy (1906) and Evans (1966) give a brief description under the name Aufiterna ptyeloides Kirkaldy.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Brownish testaceous, with paler pubescence; ocelli red. Apical half of tegmina hyaline. Beneath testaceous, lateral margins of abdomen more or less sanguineous. On the costa about the middle of the wing and extending inwards a little is a dark-brown smudge. Length 5-5.25 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906, as Aufiterna ptyeloides)

Length, male female, 4.6-5.2 mm. General coloration pale yellowish-brown, finely pubescent. Tegmen either entirely pale yellowish brown, or proximally brown, sometimes shading to dark brown, and apically pale hyaline brownish-yellow. (Evans 1966, as Aufiterna ptyeloides)

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [312]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [382]

 

General References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [313] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement invalid reversion to ptyeloides Kirkaldy)

Jacobi, A. 1921. Kritische Bermerkungen über die Cercopidae. (Rhynchota Homoptera). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 87: 1-65 [50] (nom. nov. for Aufiterna ptyeloides Kirkaldy)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [382] (Original description)

 

History of changes

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