Species Cemus kirkaldyi (Metcalf, 1943)

Cemus kirkaldyi (Metcalf), adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phyllodinus kirkaldyi Metcalf, Z.P. 1943. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea. Part 3, Araeopidae (Delphacidae). Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 552 pp. [148] [nom. nov. for Phyllodinus koebelei (Kirkaldy)].
• Phacalastor koebelei Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [408] [preoccupied by Phyllodinus koebelei Osborn].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: vii-viii.1904, on grasses, Koebele), Cairns, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Cemus kirkaldyi (Metcalf, 1943). —
  Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [19]
• Phyllodinus koebelei (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Muir, F. 1921. On some Samoan fulgorids (Homoptera). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 4(3): 564-584 [576]

Introduction

A distinctively marked species which is widespread in eastern Queensland and has been recorded in the far NE corner of New South Wales.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Allied to [Phacalastor pseudomaidis Kirkaldy], but larger and stouter, posterior margin of pronotum less emarginate; tegminal granules much larger and darker. Pronotum and scutellum darker. Frons blackish brown with many pale yellowish specks, base of clypeus pale. Anterior coxae and a round spot on mesopleura dead black; anterior and intermediate legs brownish black, more or less annulate with pallid; posterior legs more or less pale. Tegmina hyaline with bright black granules, the transverse apical line suffusedly blackish brown, the color continuing curvedly from apex of clavus to exteroapical angle, forming a rough semi-circle; second and third apical veins suffusedly brownish black. Abdomen mostly black except anus, etc. Male genital segments black. Female genital segments black, ovipositor pale. Length: 3 3/4–4 1/8 mm (always long winged). (Kirkaldy 1906, as Phacalastor koebelei Kirkaldy)

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 [408–409]

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