Species Batracomorphus icarus Knight, 1983
Compiler and date details
9 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Batracomorphus icarus 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 [85].
Type data:
Holotype BPBM 12538 ♂ (coll.: 13.iii.1956, J.L. Gressitt), Kuranda, Queensland.
Introduction
This species is only known from the holotype male collected in the wet tropics of North Queensland.
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 dorsoposteriorly with distal half turned ventroposteriorly, apex acute, ventrolateral margin acuminate subapically. Styles with apical process expanded over distal half, tapering to short acute dorsally hooked apex. Aedeagus simple; shaft directed dorsally, recurved anteriorly at apex; gonopore extending to slightly basad of midlength of shaft; anterior incision slightly longer than gonopore. Length ♂ 4.64 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 [85]
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 02-Dec-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |