Species Batracomorphus pelias (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurinoscopus pelias Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [348].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: i-ii.1905), Sydney, New South Wales; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905), Mittagong, New South Wales.

 

Generic Combinations

• Batrachomorphus pelias (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [206]
  Knight, W.J. 1983. The leafhopper genus Batracomorphus (Cicadellidae) in the eastern Oriental and Australian Regions. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 47(2): 27-210 [206] (nomen dubium)

 

Introduction

Knight (1983) referred to a "holotype" female but no holotype exists. As explained by Medler (1987), the Kirkaldy type material in BPBM includes specimens bearing a holotype and a paratype labels but these are invalid since Kirkaldy did not designate primary types for any of his species except the occasional holotype by monotypy. Since these labels have not been validated by publication, they have no status and any male which can be identified as being a syntype is available for lectotype designation. Kirkaldy (1906) indicates that the syntype series of this species includes both males and females so a male syntype is available for designation as lectotype. Knight's (1983) recognition of this species as a nomen dubium is therefore unnecessary.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General form of B. dryas, but a little more elongate. Greenish; head and scutellum often yellowish; underside more or less testaceous. Frons convex, though not so much so as in the type. Inner apical cell and appendix colorless. Male ventral segments similar to those of B. dryas. Female: last segment slightly roundly emarginate, laterally produced acuminately, pygofers elongate. Length: 4¾–6 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 [348]

 

General References

Knight, W.J. 1983. The leafhopper genus Batracomorphus (Cicadellidae) in the eastern Oriental and Australian Regions. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 47(2): 27-210 [206] (nomen dubium)

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

 

History of changes

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