Species Carvaka contempta (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nephotettix contemptus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [332].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1993. Lectotype designations and new synonymies for G. W. Kirkaldy's Australian Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) held in the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. General and Applied Entomology 25: 35-59 [40].
• Nephotettix eurytus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [54].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: i.1905; holotype by monotypy), Mittagong, New South Wales.
• Carvaka fulvida Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [244].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: 21.i.1938, N. Geary), Bunya Mountains, Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ross, H.H. 1968. The evolution and dispersal of the grassland leafhopper Exitianus with keys to the Old World species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 22(1): 1-30 [22] (synonymy of N. eurytus and C. fulvida )

 

Generic Combinations

• Carvaka contempta (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Zhang, Y. & Webb, M.D. 1996. A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 65(1): 1-103 [13]
• Hybrasil contemptus (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Ross, H.H. 1968. The evolution and dispersal of the grassland leafhopper Exitianus with keys to the Old World species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 22(1): 1-30 [22]
• Exitianus contemptus (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [226]

 

Introduction

This pale brown species is found from SE Queensland to SE Victoria. It fits into Viraktamath's (1998) picturata species group characterised by the presence of an accessory sclerite between the connective and the base of the aedeagus. Kirkaldy (1906) stated that the male was unknown and based his description on females. Zhang & Webb (1996) were unaware that Fletcher & Condello (1993) had designated a lectotype for the species and noted that they had examined syntype females without indicating the quantity. Fletcher & Semeraro (2007) also overlooked the lectotype designation (what a wally!) and recognised four syntypes, one of which was a male.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species can be differentiated from the other Australian species by the structures of the male genitalia which were figured by Fletcher & Semeraro (2007).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher & Semeraro 2007: 91

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. & Semeraro, L. 2007. Genus Carvaka Distant in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 46(2): 89-95 [92]

 

General References

Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1993. Lectotype designations and new synonymies for G. W. Kirkaldy's Australian Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) held in the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. General and Applied Entomology 25: 35-59 [40]

Fletcher, M.J. & Semeraro, L. 2007. Genus Carvaka Distant in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 46(2): 89-95 [92]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [333]

Viraktamath, C.A. 1998. A revision of the leafhopper tribe Paraboloponini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae) in the Indian subcontinent. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 67(2): 153–207 [158]

Zhang, Y. & Webb, M.D. 1996. A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 65(1): 1-103 [13]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	20-Oct-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		31-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		15-Jun-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)