Species Batracomorphus orestes Knight, 1983

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• Batracomorphus orestes 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 [152].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: vii.1937, 400 m, W. Stüber), Humboldt Bay district, Bewani Mtns, Irian Jaya.

Introduction

This species is widespread in the western Pacific region from the Philippines to Samoa although it shows some variation in the branches of the pygofer processes (see Knight 1983).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Knight (1983) recorded a male from Australia with no further details.

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Male pygophore processes slender, directed posteriorly, bifurcating distad of midlength into a dorsal and ventral branch each directed posteriorly and of variable length and shape, their apices acute or with dorsal branch sometimes expanded apically, the processes sometimes variably rotated on longitudinal axis so branches in same or near same horizontal plane. Styles with apical processes slightly expanded over distal half and tapering to short acute dorsally hooked apex, ventral margin acuminate and slightly serrate subapically. Aedeagus simple; shaft directed dorsally, tapering to finger-like apex in lateral aspect; gonopore extending approximately two-thirds length of shaft; anterior incision extending slightly more basad than gonopore. Length ♂ 4.00–5.60 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 [152–153]

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 [152–155]

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