Species Batracomorphus molestia (Kirkaldy, 1906)
Compiler and date details
13 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Eurinoscopus molestia Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [348].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland
Comment: Knight (1983) referred to a holotype but no holotype exists, only an unknown number of female syntypes. The lack of male syntypes led Knight (1983) to regard this species as a nomen dubium. Knight (1983) also gave the type locality as Cairns but Kirkaldy (1906) gave it as Kuranda which was indicated by the addition of a red "K" to a printed Cairns data label.
Generic Combinations
- Batrachomorphus molestia (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [206]
Introduction
This species, described from the wet tropics of North Queensland, was regarded as a nomen dubium by Knight (1983) due to the lack of a male in the type series.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Allied to the last [Batracomorphus pelias (Kirkaldy)], but narrowed and more elongate; vertex distinctly, though obtusely, angulatelv rotundate in front; in the middle more than one-half longer than at eyes which extend laterally very slightly beyond the pronotum. Frons nearly as convex as in the type. There are 3 transverse veins standing on the cubital. Female: last segment not produced acuminately laterally. Length: 5 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).
Diagnosis References
Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [348–349]
General 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 [205] (nomen dubium)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 23-Apr-2014 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |