Species Chlamydopteryx eurobium Kirkaldy, 1907

Chlamydopteryx eurobium Kirkaldy, syntype female

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

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

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904; at least one male syntype exists), Cairns, Queensland.

Introduction

In his original description, Kirkaldy (1907) provides a note that the male has the “pygophore as in C. ridicularis”. This indicates that he examined at least one male. The specimen labelled as “holotype” and distributed by BPBM as the primary type has not been validated as such by publication (see Medler 1987) and has syntype status. If Kirkaldy's male specimen can be found in BPBM, then it is available to be designated as lectotype. The species is only known from the wet tropics of North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Allied to the last [C. ridicularis Kirkaldy], but the colour is browner. Vertex more transverse, the apical margin almost truncate, frontal keels very feeble. Outer branch of radial angularly bent near the base, as seen from above. Male: pygophor as in C. ridicularis. Length 5 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

Diagnosis References

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

General References

Medler, J.T. 1987. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XI. Taxonomic notes on Kirkaldy Types in the Bishop Museum, with illustrations of the genitalia of male lectotypes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 27: 115-125 [115]

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