Species Batracomorphus viridipes (Distant, 1908)
Compiler and date details
14 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Bythoscopus viridipes Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [99].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 2 ♀ (coll.: v.1903, F.P. Dodd), Townsville, Queensland.
Generic Combinations
- Batrachomorphus viridepes (Distant, 1908) [misspelling of generic and specific names]. —
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [207]
Introduction
This species was regarded by Knight (1983) as a nomen dubium because it is based only on female specimens.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Stramineous; pronotum, scutellum, and tegmina slightly greyishly tomentose; eyes and ocelli carmine-red; the tarsi and apices of the tibiae bright emerald green, the posterior legs less prominently so in this respect; pronotum finely transversely wrinkled; scutellum with a dark spot near each basal angle, and an arcuate impression before apical area which is straightly transversely wrinkled; tegmina finely obscurely punctate; posterior tibiae somewhat broad, curved and thickly fineiy spinulose. Length incl. tegm., 6½ mill. (Distant 1908).
Diagnosis References
Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [99]
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)
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 23-Apr-2014 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |