Species Epipsychidion epipyropis Kirkaldy, 1906

Museums

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• Epipsychidion epipyropis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [346].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM 4421 ♀ (coll.: ii.1905, Koebele's No. 2373, arboreal), Sydney, New South Wales.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Stevens, M.M. 1990. A revision of the Genus Epipsychidion Kirkaldy (Homoptera : Cicadelloidea : Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 655-664 [659].
• Epipsychidion fides Evans, J.W. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [749].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K68749 ♂ (coll.: xii.1966, F. Evans), Berowra Waters, New South Wales.
• Epipsychidion epipryopis Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [118] [subsequent misspelling].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stevens, M.M. 1990. A revision of the Genus Epipsychidion Kirkaldy (Homoptera : Cicadelloidea : Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 655-664 [659] (synonymy of E. fides)

 

Introduction

This beautifully marked species is widespread along the eastern seaboard of mainland Australia from SE Queensland to southern Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Leptospermum sp. [MYRTACEAE] Tea-tree).

 

Diagnosis

Pale cinereotestaceous, sordid testaceous beneath. Pronotum with 3 distinct, narrow, longitudinal black lines, which continue anteriorly and posteriorly on to vertex and scutellum (the middle one much thickened on the vertex and scutellum and trifurcating anteriorwards on the pronotum.) Clypeus etc., blackish brown, frons obscurely and sparsely marked with brown. Anterior intermediate femora annulated with dark brown. Tegmina with veins white, dark brown and black. Abdomen brownish-testaceous, a blackish brown median line on last tergite. Male unknown. Female: Ovipositor extending beyond tegmina; pygofer elongate, but not so long as the above [?]. Vars: In some examples, the black lines are fainter and are bordered with yellowish brown. The nymph has a remarkably elongate head (Kirkaldy 1906).

The species was comprehensively redescribed by Stevens (1990) with descriptions and illustrations of the male and female genitalia.

 

ID Keys

Stevens 1990: 658

 

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 [346]

Stevens, M.M. 1990. A revision of the Genus Epipsychidion Kirkaldy (Homoptera : Cicadelloidea : Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 655-664 [659–662]

 

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
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED