Species Colgar chlorospilum (Walker, 1870)

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• Nephesa chlorospila Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected in the Indian Archipelago by Mr A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10: 82-193 [173].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ (Wallace), New Guinea.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Medler, J.T. 1986. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) VIII. Lectotype designations and taxonomic notes on species in the Museum of Victoria. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 47(2): 207–211 [208].
• Nephesa monoleuca Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected in the Indian Archipelago by Mr A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10: 82-193 [177].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ (Medler (1990) designated a female lectotype despite there only being reference to a male by Walker (1870). It is possible that Walker erred in stating that his specimen was a male), New Guinea.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Medler, J.T. 1990. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XIV. Walker and Distant types in the British Museum. Oriental Insects 24: 127–195 [151].
• Cromna quadripunctata Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected in the Indian Archipelago by Mr A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10: 82-193 [182].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ (Medler (1990) designated a female lectotype despite there only being reference to a male by Walker (1870). It is possible that Walker erred in stating that his specimen was a male), Mysol [Mysool Is., Indonesia].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Medler, J.T. 1990. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XIV. Walker and Distant types in the British Museum. Oriental Insects 24: 127–195 [157].
• Phyllyphanta birarae Kirkaldy, G.W. 1905. Memoir on the Rhynchota collected by Dr. Arthur Willey, F.R.S., chiefly in Birara (New Britain) and Lifu. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1905: 327-363, pl. 17 [335].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Birara, New Britain.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Medler, J.T. 1989. New Guinea Flatidae (Homoptera) species collected on economic and other plants, with descriptions of new species. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 2: 1-79 [10].
• Euphanta pokiana Distant, W.L. 1910. Rhynchota Malayana. Part III. Records of the Indian Museum 5: 313-338 [324].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Pokia Mailu, Papua New Guinea.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 4 ♂, 5 ♀, Pokia Mailu, Papua New Guinea.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Medler, J.T. 1990. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XIV. Walker and Distant types in the British Museum. Oriental Insects 24: 127–195 [176].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Melichar, L. 1902. Monographie der Acanaloniiden und Flatiden (Homoptera) (Fortsetzung). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien 17: 1-253 [61] (synonymy of N. monoleuca Walker and C. quadripunctata Walker)
• Medler, J.T. 1989. New Guinea Flatidae (Homoptera) species collected on economic and other plants, with descriptions of new species. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 2: 1-79 [10] (synonymy of P. birarae Kirkaldy and E. pokiana Distant)

Generic Combinations

• Colgar chlorospilus (Walker, 1870). —
  Kirkaldy, G.W. 1913. On some new species of leafhoppers. Part 1. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 7-27 [20]

Introduction

This species was listed by Medler (2001) from many localities in New Guinea and Indonesia with a series from Mindanao in the Philippines. A single male was listed by Medler (2001) from Darwin, Northern Territory, although Medler (1989) had also listed three Torres Strait islands as part of the distribution. Medler (1989) also provided a list of plant hosts of the species in New Guinea.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Darwin Coastal (DAC)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Overall colour light green or bleached green, often light stramineous, ochraceous, or off-white; thorax and underside of body ochraceous in contrast to green dorsally; tarsi light pink. Tegmen unicolorous except whre margins are narrowly red, including vein terminations; red margin lacking or evanescent along basal ¾ of costal margin and claval margin. Normally, red spots, sometimes small concentration of red on discal cell crossvein. Sutural and apical angles of nearly similar obtuse configuration, sutural angle less convex; apical margin shallowly convex. Hind leg spine formula 1 : 6 : 7 (Medler 1989).

ID Keys

Medler 2001: 9

Diagnosis References

Medler, J.T. 1989. New Guinea Flatidae (Homoptera) species collected on economic and other plants, with descriptions of new species. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 2: 1-79 [10]

Medler, J.T. 2001. Flatidae of New Guinea and adjacent areas (Homoptera: Flatidae). Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 8: 1-117 [9]

General References

Medler, J.T. 1989. New Guinea Flatidae (Homoptera) species collected on economic and other plants, with descriptions of new species. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 2: 1-79 [11–13]

Medler, J.T. 2001. Flatidae of New Guinea and adjacent areas (Homoptera: Flatidae). Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 8: 1-117 [12]

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