Species Batracomorphus hecate Knight, 1983
Compiler and date details
9 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Batracomorphus hecate 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 [65].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 20.xii.1917, W.W. Froggatt), Grenfell, New South Wales.
Introduction
This species differs from most other species in the genus by having a flat vertex not continuous with the face. It is known from the southern slopes of New South Wales.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Vertex flat. Male pygophore processes slender, directed posteriorly and curving dorsally, apex acute, annulate subapically. Styles with apical process not expanded distally, tapering to acute dorsally hooked apex. Aedeagus simple; shaft directed dorsally, recurved anteriorly; gonopore extending to midlength of shaft; anterior incision extending more basad than gonopore. Length ♂ 3.84–4.16 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 [65]
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 02-Dec-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |