Species Batracomorphus angustatus (Osborn, 1934)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bythoscopus angustatus Osborn, H. 1934. Hemiptera. Cicadellidae (Jassidae). Pt II. Insects of Samoa and Other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda 4: 163-192 [166].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1930-467 ♂ (coll.: 1.iii.1925, Hopkins), Neiafu, Vavau, Tonga.
• Eurinoscopus punctatus Evans, J.W. 1940. Some Queensland leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera) that attack lucerne. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 52: 10-13 [10].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Ho. 5223 ♂ (coll.: 14.ix.1939, D.O. Atherton), Darling Downs, Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [51] (synonymy of E. punctatus)

 

Generic Combinations

• Batracomorphus angustatus (Osborn, 1934). —
  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 [51]
• Batrachomorphus punctatus (Evans, 1940). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [206]

 

Introduction

This species is widespread in Australia although confirmed records are patchy with much material identified simply to genus probably belonging to this species. The species, which was previously known as Eurinoscopus punctatus, is a known vector of tomato big bud and potato purple top wilt phytoplasma diseases in Australia and a suspected vector of Citrus dieback (Grylls 1979).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Knight (1983) recorded the species from New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia but did not provide details of localities.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Medicago sativa Linnaeus [FABACEAE]; Cassinia leptophylla R.Br. [ASTERACEAE]; Cassinia vauvilliersii Hook.f [ASTERACEAE]; Erigeron sp. [ASTERACEAE]), vector.

Extra Ecological Information

Tomato big bud phytoplasma, potato purple top wilt phytoplasma, suspected vector of Citrus dieback

 

Diagnosis

Punctures on forewings occasionally dark brown. Male pygophore processes slender, straight or slightly sinuate, directed posteriorly, tapering gradually to acute apex. Styles with apical process markedly swollen over distal half, tapering to acute dorsally hooked apex. Aedeagus simple; shaft directed dorsally; gonopore extending to just basad of midlength of shaft; anterior incision slightly shorter than gonopore. Length ♂ 4.16–4.96 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 [51]

 

General References

Grylls, N.E. 1979. Leafhopper Vectors and the Plant Disease Agents they Transmit in Australia. pp. 179–214 in Maramorosch, K. & Harris, K.F. Leafhopper Vectors and Plant Disease Agents. New York, San Francisco, London : Academic Press. [182]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Iassinae Amyot & Serville, 1843	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED