Species Balocha xantho (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Idiocerus xantho Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [33].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: viii.1904, Perkins), Kuranda, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [58].

  Type locality 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 [116] (Webb (1983) indicated that the label had a "K" added to a printed Cairns data label. Medler (1987) explained that this is how Kirkaldy indicated Kuranda).

 

Generic Combinations

• Balocha xantho (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [58]

 

Introduction

This species has been recorded along the coast of Queensland from the wet tropics to the NE corner of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum, scutellum and sternites yellow or orange yellow. Sterna and legs yellowish testaceous. Tegmina hyaline, subiridescent, tinged with cinereous, a darkish fuscous longitudinal stripe down the middle of the tegmen and a fuscous spot at the apex of the clavus. Female: last sternite subtruncate. Length 4-4¼ mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

This species is closely related to unilineata, differing only slightly in the shape of the male genitalia. Both species can be distinguished from toesa by their shagreen pronotum and longer peduncle of the third apical cell of the forewing (Webb 1983).

 

ID Keys

Webb 1983: 58

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [33]

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [58–59]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		30-Nov-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)