Species Conoguinula coeruleopennis (Fabricius, 1803)

Conoguinula coeruleopennis (Fabricius), adult.

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• Cicada coeruleopennis Fabricius, J.C. 1803. Ryngota. in, Systema Rhyngotorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. 1-314 pp. [73].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP sex unknown, teneral specimen (Young (1986) was only able to find one syntype, a teneral specimen lacking its abdomen, in Paris), Java.
• Tettigonia lactea Signoret, V.A. 1853. Revue Iconographique des Tettigonides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 1: 13-40, 323-374, 661-688 [663].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP sex, quantity unknown (possible holotype by monotypy), Port Praslin, New Guinea.
• Tetigonia pasiphae Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [320].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, 'arboreal'), Cairns, Queensland.
• Tetigonia parthaon Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [321].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland
  Comment: type series contains males and females.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Young, D.A. 1986. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) Part 3. Old World Cicadellini. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service 281: 1-639 [536] (synonymy of T. lactea, T. pasiphae and T. parthaon )

Generic Combinations

• Conoguinula coeruleopennis (Fabricius, 1803). —
  Young, D.A. 1986. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) Part 3. Old World Cicadellini. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service 281: 1-639 [536]

Introduction

This is a variable species in colour, in the degree of swelling of the frons and, to some extent, in the male genitalia. Young (1986) treated all variants as a single species distributed across New Guinea, Maluku, the island to the east of New Guinea and the wet tropics of North Queensland. He noted that an intensive study using non-morphological data may lead to the species being divided. Kirkaldy (1906) named two species from Cairns and Kuranda based on colour variation but both were synonymised by Young (1986).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

Diagnosis

C. carnea capite punctis tribus thorace duobus atris, eiytris coerulescentibus (Fabricius 1803).

Pale luteous; eyes, ocelli and 2 small spots near anterior margin of scutellum, blackish. Tegmina creamy yellow with darker veins; wings milky with pale yellowish veins. Ocelli pale greenish brown. Leg hairs pale. Vertex as long as or a trifle longer than the pronotum, rounded apically; frons swollen, flattened medianly. Clypeus subangulate. Pronotum punctured. Tegmina with five discoidal (three subapical) and five apical cells. Female last abdominal sternite slightly roundly emarginate, medianly truncate; pygofers about 4½ times as long as the last, narrowing posteriorly, sides not rounded posteriorly; in profile, apex narrowly rounded. Length 12.75 mm (Kirkaldy 1906, of Tetigonia pasiphae).
Male: last abdominal sternite truncate, plates a little more than twice as long as above; basal half broad, roundly narrowing, then more rapidly so towards the middle line of the abdomen, apices acute, fringed with soft hairs; pygofers much longer than plates (Kirkaldy 1906, of Tetigonia parthaon).

Diagnosis References

Fabricius, J.C. 1803. Systema Rhyngotorum secundum ordines, genera, species adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Brunsvigae : Carolum Reichard x 314 pp. emmendanda. [73]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [320, 321]

General 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 [320, 321]

Young, D.A. 1986. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) Part 3. Old World Cicadellini. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service 281: 1-639 [536]

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