Species Hackeriana cuspidata (Walker, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ledra cuspidata Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [830].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1 adult (lacking abdomen), 1 nymph, New Holland.
• Hackeriana rotundata Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [68].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀, Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

 

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 [129] (synonymy of H. rotundata)

 

Generic Combinations

• Hackeriana cuspidata (Walker, 1851). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [129]
• Rhotidus cuspidatus (Walker, 1851). —
  Distant, W.L. 1907. Contributions to a knowledge of the Ledrinae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 51: 185-197 [193]

 

Introduction

The distribution of this species within Australia is largely unknown. Walker's (1851) original description simply listed it from "New Holland". Evans (1937) described Hackeriana rotundata from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, and, when this name was synonymised with Walker's, this locality became the only specific distribution record for the species, which is unknown to the compiler.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Straminea, fusiformis; caput conicum; alae anticae sublimpidae; alae posticae limpidae.
Straw-colour, slender, spindle-shaped: head and chest slightly convex; head conical, as broad as the chest, finely striated longitudinally, very concave on the hind border; its length full half its breadth; on each side of the fore border a narrow concave stripe with a slight rim on each side; underside shagreened, slightly convex; face flat, with a row of short indistinct transverse furrows along each side; shield finely striated transversely, conical on the fore border, concave on the hind border; scutcheon paler than the shield, shagreened, with a curved transverse suture towards the tip; fore-wings almost colourless; hind-wings colourless. Length of the body 3½ lines; of the wings 7 lines (Walker 1851).

General coloration greenish yellow. Head less flattened, more apically swollen and more elongate than in the preceding species [H. glauca Evans]. Apically, a white stripe bordered with brown; ocelli much closer to the eyes on each side than to the apex of the head. Pronotum more convex than in the preceding species. Tegmen hyaline, veins green. Length ♀ 8.2 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [129]

Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [830]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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		12-Feb-2010	(import)