Species Chlamydopteryx ridicularis (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Chlamydopteryx ridicularis (Kirkaldy), holotype male

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Issus ridicularis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [438].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: ix-xii.1904, arboreal), Bundaberg, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, arboreal), Cairns, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Chlamydopteryx ridicularis (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [103]

Introduction

This species is known from along the eastern coastline of Queensland. With his original description, Kirkaldy (1906) gives both “Cairns (viii)" and “Bundaberg ix–xii" (both 1904) as the source of his type material but notes that “The Bundaberg specimen is the type” indicating that there was only a single specimen from Bundaberg which he intended to be the type of the species. The male examined by Gnezdilov & Fletcher (2010) was therefore recognised by them as the holotype by original designation. The paratype(s), from Cairns, are of unknown sex and quantity.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Sordid testaceous, base of frons, apex of clypeus etc, dark. Abdomen, legs, etc., more or less obscurely and sparsely marked with brownish within the reticulations, exterior veins more or less greenish, or blackish. Vertex and eyes rather flatter and a little wider. Head and eyes as wide as, or a trifle wider than, the pronotum; costal margin more evenly rounded. Frons flatter, lateral keels straight, posterior keel obsolescent. Pronotum not granulate. Median and cubital veins forked at about the same place. Male: pygofers as in the previous species [sidnicus]. Female: last segment almost linear, pygofers pale brownish, short, broad, the two together almost equilateral. Length: about 6 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

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 [438]

General 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 [38]

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