Species Batracomorphus torquatus Knight, 1983
Compiler and date details
14 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Batracomorphus torquatus 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 [75].
Type data:
Holotype BPBM 12534 ♂ (coll.: iii.1956, J. Gressitt), Tully Falls, Queensland.
Introduction
This species, recorded only from Tully Falls in the wet tropics of North Queensland, is unknown to the compiler. It is one of several species bearing small dark spots on the tegmina.
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
Forewings sparsely speckled with small variably sized dark brown spots. Male pygophore processes slender, directed posteriorly, turned dorsoposteriorly near apex with latter acute and turned posteriorly, a keel-like extension subapically on ventral margin. Styles with apical process expanded slightly over distal half, abruptly narrowed to acute dorsally hooked apex, a small triangular expansion subapically on ventral margin. Aedeagus simple; shaft directed dorsally, turned slightly anterodorsally from midlength; gonopore extending to just basad of midlength; anterior incision slightly longer than gonopore. Length ♂ 4.32 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 [75]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 02-Dec-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |