Species Euleimonios flavidiventris (Stål, 1859)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Jassus (Deltocephalus) flavidiventris Stål, C. 1859. Hemiptera. Species novas descripsit. Kongliga Svenska fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring jorden under befäl af C.A. Virgin åren 1851-1853 (Zoologi) 4: 219-298 [294].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♀, Sydney, New South Wales.
• Euleimonios demittendus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [342].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1993. Lectotype designations and new synonymies for G. W. Kirkaldy's Australian Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) held in the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. General and Applied Entomology 25: 35-59 [41].

 

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 [223] (synonymy of E. demittendus)

 

Generic Combinations

• Aconuromimus flavidiventris (Stål, 1859). —
  Linnavuori, R.E. 1954. A new leafhopper genus from Australia, Aconuromimus n.gen. (Hom., Cicadellidae). Annales Entomologici Fennici 20(2): 83-84 [84]
• Euleimonios flavidiventris (Stål, 1859). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [223]

 

Introduction

This species is found along the eastern coastline of New South Wales reaching just into the SE corner of Queensland. Stål (1859) stated that the type material was female and Linnavuori (1954), in establishing the genus Aconuromimus, examined and figured the type specimen of this species, including the female 7th sternite; he stated that the male was unknown. Fletcher and Condello (1994) stated that the holotype was male but did not examine the specimen.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Flavo-testaceus, loris magnis; pectoris marginibus lateralibus pallidis; abdomine pallide flavescente. ♀ long. 4, lat. 1 mm. (Stål 1859).

Head pale brown. Anteclypeus dark brown. Pronotum, scutellum and tegmen pale greenish brown, tegmen paling to whitish with green veins apically. Face of head with lora not bulbous, depressed basally to meet gena against frontoclypeus. Frontoclypeus evenly convex. Frontoclypeal sutures extending above ocelli, to which they are immediately lateral, extending short distance onto crown. Vertex anteriorly rounded, shagreen with occasionally a few lateral wrinkles, without coronal suture. Pronotum shagreen anteriorly, obscurely transversely striate posteriorly. Scutellum shagreen. Tegmen with veins M3+4 and CuA1 not united, ending separately in marginal vein. Tegmen with five apical cells (Fletcher & Condello 1994).

Fletcher & Condello (1994) also described and illustrated the male genitalia.

This species is characterised by the absence of a basal aedeagal apodeme, by the shape of the aedeagal processes and parameres and by the greenish coloration of the tegmina.

 

ID Keys

Fletcher & Condello 1994: 1019

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1994. A revision of the Australian leafhopper genus Euleimonios Kirkaldy (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Deltocephalinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1017-1035 [1020–1021]

Stål, C. 1859. Hemiptera. Species novas descripsit. Kongliga Svenska fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring jorden under befäl af C.A. Virgin åren 1851-1853 (Zoologi) 4: 219-298 [294]

 

General References

Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1994. A revision of the Australian leafhopper genus Euleimonios Kirkaldy (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Deltocephalinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1017-1035 [1020]

Linnavuori, R.E. 1954. A new leafhopper genus from Australia, Aconuromimus n.gen. (Hom., Cicadellidae). Annales Entomologici Fennici 20(2): 83-84 [83]

 

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