Species Dryadomorpha pallida Kirkaldy, 1906

Dryadomorpha pallida Kirkaldy, adult.

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• Dryadomorpha pallida Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [336].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: ix-xii. 1904), Bundaberg, Queensland.
• Paganalia virescens Distant, W.L. 1917. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A. Vol. VI, No vii — Rhynchota, Part II: Suborder Homoptera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 17: 273-322 [314].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Mahé, Long Island, Seychelles.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Webb, M.D. 1980. The Cicadellidae from Aldabra, Astove and Cosmoledo Atolls collected by the Royal Society Expedition 1967-68 (Hemiptera, Homoptera). Journal of Natural History 14: 829-863 [848].
• Zizyphoides indicus Distant, W.L. 1918. Rhynchota. Homoptera: Appendix. Heteroptera: Addenda. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 7(i-viii): 1-210 [73].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, India.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Webb, M.D. 1981. The Asian, Australasian and Pacific Paraboloponinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 43(2): 39-76 [50].
• Rhombopsis virens Haupt, H. 1927. Homoptera Palestinae I. Bulletin. The Zionist Organization. Institute of Agriculture and Natural History. Agricultural Experiment Station. Tel-Aviv, Palestine 8: 5-43 [23].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MUC ♂, Israel.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Webb, M.D. 1980. The Cicadellidae from Aldabra, Astove and Cosmoledo Atolls collected by the Royal Society Expedition 1967-68 (Hemiptera, Homoptera). Journal of Natural History 14: 829-863 [848].
• Rhombopsis viridis Singh Pruthi, H. 1930. Studies on Indian Jassidae (Homoptera). Part I. Introductory and description of some new genera and species. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 11(1): 1-68 [34].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZSI ♂ (coll: x.1929, A. Rahman. Two "holotypes" were designated from six specimens by Singh Pruthi and given the registration numbers 717–718/H 7. All six specimens were syntypes until the lectotype was designated by Webb (1981)), Lyallpur, Punjab, India.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Webb, M.D. 1981. The Asian, Australasian and Pacific Paraboloponinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 43(2): 39-76 [50].
• Rhombopsis chatterjeei Singh Pruthi, H.S. 1934. Entomological investigations on the spike disease of sandal. (14) Jassidae (Homopt.). Indian Forest Records Entomology Series 19: 1-30 [26].

  Type data:

   Lectotype IFRI 4066/H 7 ♂ (Coll: 22.xii.1030, F.R.I. Sandal Insect Survey), Jawalagiri, North Salem, Madras, India.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Webb, M.D. 1981. The Asian, Australasian and Pacific Paraboloponinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 43(2): 39-76 [50].
• Platymetopius antennalis Lindberg, H. 1958. Hemiptera Insularum Caboverdensium. Commentationes Biologicae Societas Scientiarum Fennicae 19: 1-246 [181].

  Type data:

   Holotype UZMH 11177 ♂ (coll: 19.ii.1954), Fonte Aleixo, Cape Verde Islands.
• Yakunopona yakushimensis Ishihara, T. 1954. Homopterous notes. Scientific Reports of the Matsuyama Agricultural College 14: 1-28 [13].

  Type data:

   Holotype KIUJ ♀, Japan.
• Platymetopius australis Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [247].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: viii.1956, E.C.B. Langford), Wyndham, Western Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Webb, M.D. 1981. The Asian, Australasian and Pacific Paraboloponinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 43(2): 39-76 [52] (synonymy of P. virescens, Z. indicus, R. virens, R. viridis, R. chatterjeei, P. antennalis, Y. yakushimensis and P. australis)

Introduction

This is a very widespread and rather variable species across its range. It is distributed from Africa, across the southern Palaearctic and Oriental regions to Australia where it is distributed along the northern and eastern coastal areas from the North Kimberley in Western Australia to the Sydney basin in New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Northern Kimberley (NK), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

The two Australian species of Dryadomorpha can be differentiated by the thickness of the apical processes of the aedeagus, those of D. metrosideri being evenly narrow throughout while those of D. pallida are slightly swollen at their midlength.

ID Keys

Webb 1981: 50

Diagnosis References

Webb, M.D. 1981. The Asian, Australasian and Pacific Paraboloponinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 43(2): 39-76 [50]

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