Species Cicadulina bipunctatus (Melichar, 1904)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gnathodus bipunctatus Melichar, L. 1904. Neue Homopteren aus Süd-Schoa, Gala und Somal-Länden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 54: 25-48 [47].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MMBC ♂ ♀, numerous examples, Ganale, Ethiopia.
• Cicadula bipunctella Matsumura, S. 1908. Neue Cicadinen aus Europa und Mittelmeergebiet. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo 23(6): 1-46 [12].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂ (2-3.ix.190?, Matsumura), Port Said, North Africa.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Heller, F. & Linnavuori, R.E. 1968. Cicadellinen aus Aethiopian. Beiträge zur Naturkunde aus dem Staatlichen Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart 186: 1-42 [4] (synonymy of C. bipunctella)

 

Generic Combinations

• Cicadulina bipunctata (Melichar, 1904). —
  Heller, F. & Linnavuori, R.E. 1968. Cicadellinen aus Aethiopian. Beiträge zur Naturkunde aus dem Staatlichen Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart 186: 1-42 [4]
• Cicadulina bipunctella (Matsumura, 1908). —
  Zachvatkin, A.A. 1935. Notes on the Homoptera — Cicadina of Jemen. Wissenschaftliche Berichte Moskauer Staatsuniversität 4: 106-115 [111]

 

Introduction

This species is widespread in the warmer parts of the Old World. In Australia it is restricted to the Northern Territory and northern parts of Western Australia. It is the vector of a number of plant diseases, including leaf gall of rice and maize (Grylls 1979). The species has frequently been mentioned in the literature as Cicadulina bipunctella (Matsumura).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widespead in warmer parts of the Old World.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Daly Basin (DAB), Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species is smaller than C. bimaculata but is most easily distinguished by the simpler pygofer appendage which has only two or three points, rather than four as in C. bimaculata.

 

General References

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. [206]

 

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