Species Batracomorphus palicus Knight, 1983

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• Batracomorphus palicus 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 AMNH ♂ (coll.: 26–29.vii.1948, 152 m, L.J. Brass), Wenlock, Batavia River, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species is distinctive in the shape of the paramere which is strongly expanded over the distal half. In this feature, it resembes only B. hamadryas (Kirkaldy) from Fiji.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Vertex flat. Male pygophore processes filamentous, directed posteriorly and curving dorsoposteriorly, apex acute. Styles with apical process strongly expanded over distal half, tapering to acute dorsally hooked apex, a small group of minute "teeth" on ventral margin near midlength of distal expansion. Aedeagus simple; shaft directed dorsally and curving slightly anteriorly; gonopore extending approximately two thirds length of shaft; anterior incision slightly shorter than gonopore. Length ♂ 4.00 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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