Species Batracomorphus pelamys (Kirkaldy, 1906)
Compiler and date details
13 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Eurinoscopus pelamys Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [349].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales
Comment: Knight (1983) referred to a "holotype" but no holotype exists. This may constitute a lectotype designation by default. - Batracomorphus pelamys Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [349] [nomen dubium].
Generic Combinations
- Batrachomorphus pelamys (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [205]
Introduction
There are specimens identified as this species in the J.W. Evans collection from Southeast Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory but, since the identity of the species is in doubt, the identifications of these other specimens as this species cannot be accepted. Kirkaldy based the species on an unknown number of female specimens from Sydney.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
The largest of the Australian species. Similar to B. pelias but larger and more elongate. Testaceous. Frons fairly convex, vertex dorsally short, wide, little wider medianly than at the side. Female: last segment with a short acute lateral spine. Length: 6 1/8–6 7/8 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 [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 [206] (nomen dubium)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 10-Jun-2014 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |