Species Batracomorphus atreus Knight, 1983
Compiler and date details
9 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Batracomorphus atreus 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 [76].
Type data:
Holotype BPBM 12535 ♂ (coll.: 10.iii.1956, J.L. Gressitt, 350 m), Evelyn Tableland, S. of Ravenshoe, Queensland.
Introduction
This species, which was based on a single male specimen from the wet tropics of North Queensland, is unknown to the compiler.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Male pygophore processes slender, directed posteriorly and slightly dorsally, apex acute and turned ventroposteriorly. Styles with apical process slightly expanded over distal half, tapering to acute dorsally hooked apex, a small ventrally directed projection subapically on ventral margin. Aedeagus simple; shaft directed dorsally; gonopore extending three fourths length of shaft; anterior incision extending slightly more basad than gonopore. Length ♂ 3.68 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 [76]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 02-Dec-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |