Species Cicadulina bimaculata (Evans, 1940)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cicadula bimaculata Evans, J.W. 1940. Some Queensland leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera) that attack lucerne. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 52: 10-13 [11].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Ho.5222 ♂ (coll.: 24.viii.1939, D.O. Atherton, on lucerne), Lockyer, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Cicadulina bipunctella bimaculata (Evans, 1940). —
  Ruppel, R.F. 1965. A review of the genus Cicadulina (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Publications of the Museum, Michigan State University, Biological Series 2(8): 385-428 [408]
• Cicadulina bimaculata (Evans, 1940). —
  Kitching, R.L., Grylls, N.E. & Waterford, C. 1973. The identity of the Australian species of Cicadulina China. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 12: 139-143 [139]

 

Introduction

This species, which is only known from Australia, is restricted to eastern Queensland and New South Wales. It was originally described from lucerne but is probably a grass feeder as are all other species of Cicadulina. It is recorded as the vector of cereal chlorotic mottle rhabdovirus (Brunt et al. 1990) and the phytoplasma maize wallaby ear in Australia (Schindler 1942, Grylls 1979) and maize streak geminivirus overseas (Brunt et al. 1990).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Medicago sativa Linnaeus [FABACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

This species is larger than C. bipunctatus and its pygofer appendage has four points, whereas C. bipunctatus has two or three.

 

General References

Brunt, A., Crabtree, K. & Gibbs, A. 1990. Viruses of Tropical Plants. Oxon : CAB International, in association with ACIAR 707 pp.

Grylls, N.E. 1979. Leafhopper Vectors and the Plant Disease Agents they Transmit in Australia. pp. 179–214 in Maramorosch, K. & Harris, K.F. Leafhopper Vectors and Plant Disease Agents. New York, San Francisco, London : Academic Press. [195]

Schindler, A.J. 1942. Insect transmission of Wallaby Ear disease of Maize. Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science 8: 35–37

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
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