Genus Chlamydopteryx Kirkaldy, 1907

Chlamydopteryx vulturnus (Kirkaldy), type species of Chlamydopteryx.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chlamydopteryx Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [103].

  Type species:

   Issus vulturnus Kirkaldy, 1906 by original designation.
• Phaeopteryx Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [104].

  Type species:

   Issus sidnicus Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

Introduction

This genus contains five species in Queensland and one in New South Wales. A record of C. vulturnus (Kirkaldy) from Java in Indonesia is doubtful. The species are short, broad insects with dark brown and white mottled colouring although older specimens have faded to mid to pale brown.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Mulga Lands (ML), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Metope wide, with median and sublateral keels (when present) joined before its upper margin. Metopoclypeal suture convex. Coryphe transverse. Ocelli absent. Pronotum slightly shorter than mesonotum, with tubercules laterally, without keels, paradiscal fields very thin. Fore wings wide, without hypocostal plate, with long clavus. Radius and cubitus anterior bifurcate, median bi- or trifurcate (R 2 M 2-3 CuA 2). Hind wings rudimentary or well developed, trilobed, radius bifurcate, median, cubitus posterior, postcubitus, first and second anal veins simple, cubitus anterior bi- or trifurcate; between second branch of radius and median and between median and first branch of cubitus anterior – single transverse vein (R 2 r-m M 1 m-cu CuA 2-3 CuP 1 Pcu 1 A1 1 A2 1). Second (or third) branch of cubitus anterior and cubitus posterior fused and thickened. Hind tibia with two lateral spines. First metatarsomere with 7–8 spines apically. Each dorso-lateral phallobase lobe with subapical process. Aedeagus with pair of ventral hooks. Each apical aedeagal process with apical projection. Female sternum VII retracted medially. Gonoplacs triangularly elongate. Female anal tube long and narrow (Gnezdilov & Fletcher 2010).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. & Gnezdilov, V.M. (2010) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Issidae described from Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/issidae/iss00.htm

Diagnosis References

Gnezdilov, V.M. & Fletcher, M.J. 2010. A review of the Australian genera of the planthopper family Issidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) with description of an unusual new species of Chlamydopteryx Kirkaldy. Zootaxa 2366: 35–45 [36]

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