Genus Bathyllus Stål, 1866

Bathyllus albicinctus (Erichson), type species of Bathyllus Stål..

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bathyllus Stål, C. 1866. Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. Hemiptera Africana 4: 1-276 [68].

  Type species:

   Lepyronia moerens Stål, 1854 by monotypy.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Bathylus Stål, 1866. —
  Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [70] (subsequent misspelling)

Introduction

There is only one species in this genus and it is native to Australia. It is a small, cryptic, beetle-like insect which is common and widespread over most of Australia. It was discovered in New Zealand in 2004. Evans (1937&ff.) misspelled the genus as Bathylus.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Warren (WAR)

Diagnosis

Head with swollen frons, vertex flat, slightly declivous, rounded into face, wider than and longer than pronotum which is short. Tegmina smooth, shining with minutely dimpled texture, strongly convex, curving beetle-like around abdomen, claval suture evident but venation not visible. Hind tibia with two spurs, the distal larger than the proximal. (Liang & Fletcher 2003)

Small, beetle-like insects, oval in shape and brown in colour with pale markings. On the face of the head the labium extends beyond the middle coxae and the hind margin is approximately semi-circular in outline. The crown is triangular and the tegmina, which are elytra-like, are convex, and the venation is proximally obscure. The hind tibiae have 2 spurs. (Evans 1966)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2003) Illustrated Key to the genera of the subfamily Aphrophorinae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/cercopid/aphrophor/aphro00.htm [accessed 18.iv.2012]

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [318]

Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. A review of the Australian aphrophorid spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42(1): 84-93 [91]

History of changes