Species Batracomorphus adventitiosus Evans, 1966

Batracomorphus adventitiosus Evans, adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Batrachomorphus adventitiosus Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [207].

  Type data:

   Holotype NZAC ♂ (coll.: xii.1921, J.G. Myers), Whangerei, New Zealand.

Introduction

This species was first recorded from Australian by Knight (1983) who gave no details other than New South Wales, Northern Territory and Western Australia. Knight (1974) gave a list of host plants in New Zealand in the families Malvaceae, Myrtaceae, Rubiaceae, Juncaceae, Polygonaceae and Fagaceae which indicates that the species is reasonably polyphagous.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Pilbara (PIL), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Leptospermum scoparium J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. [MYRTACEAE] Manuka; Plagianthus divaricatus Forster & G.Forster [MALVACEAE]; Leptospermum ericoides A.Richard [MYRTACEAE]; Coprosma robusta M.Raoul [RUBIACEAE]; Plagianthus betulinus A.Cunn. [MALVACEAE]; Muehlenbeckia sp. [POLYGONACEAE]; Hoheria glabrata Sprague & Summerhayes [MALVACEAE]; Coprosma parviflora Hook.f. [RUBIACEAE]).

Diagnosis

Colour pale greenish yellow or stramineous, sometimes reddish, sometimes tinged or mottled with dark brown. Male pygophore processes slender, directed posteriorly, spirally twisted, apex turned medially and obliquely truncate to acute. Subgenital plates normal in shape. Styles with apical process strongly expanded over distal half, tapering to acute, dorsally hooked apex. Aedeagus simple, robust basally; shaft directed dorsally, curving anterodorsally; gonopore extending approximately two thirds length of shaft; anterior incision equal in length to gonopore. Length ♂ 4.00–5.20 mm (Knight 1983).

ID Keys

Knight 1983: 37–50

Diagnosis 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 [60]

General References

Knight, W.J. 1974. Leafhoppers of New Zealand: subfamilies Aphrodinae, Jassinae, Xestocephalinae, Idiocerinae and Macropsinae. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 1(4): 475–493 [490]

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 [60]

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