Genus Ectopiocephalus Kirkaldy, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ectopiocephalus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [463].

  Type species:

   Ectopiocephalus vanduzeei Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

 

Introduction

The only described species is the largest Australian Penthimiini and distinctive in shape with its broad, rounded head giving a somewhat cercopoid appearance. Although the species is formally recognised only from Qld, NSW and Victoria, there are specimens from northern WA in collections. Whether these are E. australis or a second species is unknown.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Coolgardie (COO), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Diagnosis

This remarkable genus is readily distinguished by the exceedingly declivous pronotum, and the structure of the vertical head. It is Cercopoid in appearance. Vertex apical, slightly convex, transverse, head dorsally anteriorly with (what is probably) a large part of the frons visible, forming a suboval plate in the same plane as the vertex. Ocelli immediately basal of this, much nearer the eyes than to one another. Frons excavate as in the other genera, but the head not at all foliaceous. Pronotum roundly declivous, anterior margin rounded in front, posterior margin roundly emarginate medianly. Tegminal venation obscure, subreticulate; with an appendix. (Kirkaldy 1906).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2008) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Tribe Penthimiini occurring in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/penthimiini/penth00.htm

 

Diagnosis 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 [463–464]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		01-Jun-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)