Species Euryphantia cinerascens Kirkaldy, 1906

Euryphantia cinerascens Kirkaldy, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Euryphantia cinerascens Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [456].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: vi.1904; holotype by monotypy), Bundaberg, Queensland.

Introduction

This species is more widespread than its congener E. tristis (Kirkaldy) which is only found in North Queensland. A single male from Palm Island indicates that both species occur in North Queensland which indicates that distribution may not be a reliable means for their differentiation as proposed by Fletcher (1980). Male genitalia provide the only consistent means of identifying the species of Euryphantia.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

More or less cinereous, the mesonotum brownish. Tegmina subhyaline, pale cinereous, reticulations tinged with brownish. Granulations brownish. Ocelli red. Length: 8¾ mm(Kirkaldy 1906).

Male genitalia. Pygofer with broad rounded lateral lobe from posterior margin. Anal segment short, not reaching as far posteriorly as subgenital plates, emarginate distally and produced ventrally short distance at base. Subgenital plates broad, convex, rounded posteriorly and ventrally, truncate posterodorsally with short broad point at dorsal corner. Aedeagus very broad with four sets of appendages, one near base on dorsal side, short curved anteriorly and pointed, second set at apex of dorsal edge, also curved anteriorly and sharply pointed, third set midway between these curving dorsally and fourth set large, from lateral part of conjunctiva near apex, curving ventrally and apically recurved towards posterior end and clubbed. In addition, a short clubbed projection extends posteriorly from near base of this fourth set of appendages. The lengths and proportions of these various sets of appendages varies slightly with locality but the basic arrangement remains the same. (Fletcher 1980)

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 1980. Review of the Australian genera Euryphantia Kirkaldy and Thanatochlamys Kirkaldy (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea, Flatidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 7(2): 21-26 [22–23]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [456]

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