Species Opiconsiva dilpa (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Delphax dilpa Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [162].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905, Koebele; possible holotype by monotypy), Mittagong, New South Wales.

Generic Combinations

• Opiconsiva dilpa (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Asche, M. 1988. Delphacidae from Cote d'Ivorie. Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Série) 10(2): 151-231 [198]
• Corbulo dilpa (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [48]

Introduction

This species was described from Mittagong in the Sydney Basin of New South Wales. Fennah (1965) extended the known distribution to locations in SE and North Queensland and the North Island of New Zealand.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Short winged form similar to algebra, but the white apical margin of the tegmina is very narrow, and the male genitalia are very different. Male pygophor suboval, margins sinuate. Aedeagus horizontal, elongate. Genital styles inwardly curved, the apices truncate, angles prominent and acute, or subacute. Length 1.5 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907)

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [162]

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