Species Dialecticopteryx (Dialecticopteryx) australica Kirkaldy, 1907

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• Dialecticopteryx australica Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [71].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: ix-xii.1904, Koebele), Bundaberg, Queensland.
• Empoasca bancrofti Evans, J.W. 1938. A contribution to the study of Jassoidea (Homoptera). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 19-55 [40].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: T. Bancroft), Eidsvold, Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [263] (synonymy of E. bancrofti)

 

Introduction

The fig leafhopper is widely distributed along the eastern coastline of mainland Australia from Cape York Peninsula in far North Queensland to the Sydney basin of New South Wales. It is distinctively marked and easily recognisable within the Australian Empoascini.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder (associated flora: Ficus [MORACEAE] fig).

 

Diagnosis

Orange-yellow, legs paler; two large bluish-black round spots on the vertex and a smaller one on the frons. Pronotum with an inverted blue-black V, connecting on the scutellum with an inverted A. Tegmina milky white, subcostal vein basally, radial, median and commissure suffusedly smoky, extreme margins of tegmen here narrowly black; radiomedial (apical) and continuation of the commissure apical of the clavus, smoky but not suffused. Wings hyaline, iridescent, veins pale fuscous partly. Male: plates long, triangular taken together. Female: 7th sternite triangularly produced, pygophor yellowish brown, ovipositor dark fuscous. Length 4½ mill. (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 [72]

 

General References

Fletcher, M.J. & Donaldson, J.F. 1992. Empoasca (Empoasca) smithi, a new species of leafhopper damaging citrus in Queensland and notes on other Typhlocybinae from Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31(2): 183-186 [185]

Lower, H.F. 1952. A revision of Australian species previously referred to the genus Empoasca (Cicadellidae: Homoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 76(5-6): 190-221 [217] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Austroasca (Paolia) bancrofti (Evans))

 

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
17-Feb-2015	Empoascini Distant, 1908	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
13-Oct-2014	Empoascini Distant, 1908	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
07-Mar-2012		07-Mar-2012	MOVED
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED