Species Batracomorphus gressitti Knight, 1983
Compiler and date details
9 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Batracomorphus gressitti 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 [68].
Type data:
Holotype BPBM 12529 ♂ (coll.: ii.1961, L. & M. Gressitt, rainforest), Mt Glorious, Queensland.
Introduction
This species has the apex of the style developed into an asymmetrical T-shape and is therefore quite distinctive. It is known from Mt Glorious and possibly other parts of southeastern Queensland.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Male pygophore processes slender, directly posteriorly, apex acute. Styles with apical process strongly expanded over distal half, abruptly narrowed subapically to bifid apex with a short acute dorsally hooked branch and a much longer ventrally curving branch. Aedeagus simple; shaft directed dorsally; gonopore extending to just basad of midlength; anterior incision equal in length to gonopore (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 [68]
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) |