Species Gaetulia chrysopoides (Walker, 1862)

Gaetulia chrysopoides (Walker), adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ricania chrysopoides Walker, F. 1862. Characters of undescribed species of Homoptera in the collection of F.P. Pascoe, F.L.S. Journal of Entomology A 1: 303-319 [312].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, quantity unknown (F.P. Pascoe collection; possible holotype by monotypy), Sydney, New South Wales.

Generic Combinations

• Gaetulia chrysopoides (Walker, 1862). —
  Muir, F. 1924. On some new and little-known Australian Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1): 29-36 [33]
• Gaetulia chrysopoides (Walker, 1862). —
  Melichar, L. 1898. Monographie der Ricaniiden (Homoptera). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien 13: 197-359 [333]
• Nurunderia chrysopoides (Walker, 1862). —
  Distant, W.L. 1909. Rhynchota Notes. xlix. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4(4): 320-338 [337]

Introduction

This pretty green and brown planthopper is reasonably common and widespread in bushland areas of eastern Australia. It is occasionally collected at lights.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Green. Head short, a little narrower than the thorax; vertex reddish, transverse quadrate; front quadrate, longer than broad, with a rim on each side and a middle keel. Disk of the thorax reddish brown. Abdomen with a broad black stripe. Wings hyaline; veins black. Fore wings with numerous transverse veinlets, some of which form a regular submarginal line; eleven regular parallel slightly oblique costal veinlets between the base and the stigma, which is brown. ♂, Length of the body 2½ lines; of the wings 9 lines (Walker 1862).

Diagnosis References

Walker, F. 1862. Characters of undescribed species of Homoptera in the collection of F.P. Pascoe, F.L.S. Journal of Entomology A 1: 303-319 [312]

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