Species Batracomorphus atrifrons (Metcalf, 1946)

Batracomorphus atrifrons (Metcalf), adult male.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bythoscopus atrifrons Metcalf, Z.P. 1946. Homoptera. Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 189: 105-148 [136].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂ (22.vii.1936, O.H. Swezey), Barrigada, Guam.

Generic Combinations

• Batracomorphus atrifrons (Metcalf, 1946). —
  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]

Introduction

This species was recorded from Guam and Saipan islands by Knight (1983) but a single male from the Gulf Plains bioregion of North Queensland was collected in 1999 to record the species from Australia.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Gulf Plains (GUP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Face, except clypellus, lora, gena and ring around each ocellus, dark brown. Male pygophore processes simple, slender, straight, directed posteriorly, tapered to acute apex with latter sometimes turned slightly dorsad. Style with apical process slightly expanded over distal half, tapering to acute dorsally hooked apex. Aedeagus simple; shaft slender, directed dorsally; gonopore extending approximately two thirds length of shaft; anterior incision extending slightly less than gonopore. Length ♂ 3.75–4.00 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]

History of changes