Species Halictophagus australensis Perkins, 1905

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• Halictophagus (Bruesia) australensis Perkins, R.C.L. 1905. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies (Part III Stylopidae). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station 1(3): 90-111 [103].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♂ adult, Cairns, QLD.
• Halictophagus spectrus Yang, C.-K. 1964. Notes on the genus Halictophagus of China (Strepsiptera; Halictophagidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 1: 76-81 [In Chinese with English translation] [81] [as Halictophagus spectus in text and Halictophagus spectrus in key and on figure heading].

  Type data:

   Holotype BAC ♀ adult, China, Kwangtung, Kwangchow.
• Halictophagus helleri Kinzelbach, R.K. 1971. Halictophagus helleri n.sp. von Ceylon. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) 230: 1-8 [2].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMNS ♂ adult, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 600 m asl.
  Paratype(s) SMNS ♀ adult (as allotype); 8♂ 2♀ adults.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kinzelbach, R.K. 1972. Halictophagus (Indoxenos) scheveni n.sp. (Insecta: Strepsiptera) aus Auchon limbatum Schmidt (Insecta: Auchenorrhyncha: Membracidae). Stuttg. Beitr. Naturk. No. 235. 6 pp. [5] (synonymy of Halictophagus helleri Kinzelbach, 1971 with Halictophagus spectrus Yang, 1964)
• Kathirithamby, J. 1992. Description and biological notes of Halictophagidae (Strepsiptera) from Australia, with a checklist of the world genera and species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 159-196 [173] (synonymy of Halictophagus spectrus Yang, 1964 with Halictophagus australensis Perkins, 1905, as `australiensis', lapsus)

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

NE coastal, QLD; also Mozambique, SE Asia, Japan.

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Cofana spectra (Distant, 1908) [CICADELLIDAE] White Leafhopper), male—volant, parasitoid.

Extra Ecological Information

Australian host—literature records of Tetigonia parthaon Kirkaldy as hosts are probably misidentifications, see Kathirithamby, J. 1992. Description and biological notes of Halictophagidae (Strepsiptera) from Australia, with a checklist of the world genera and species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 159–196 [174]; Tetigonia China & French, 1945 is a synonym of Cicadella Latreille, 1817, with Australian species now treated as Cofana.

General References

Kathirithamby, J. 1994. Records and a checklist of Strepsiptera (Insecta) from Sri Lanka. South Asian Natural History 1: 17-25

Pierce, W.D. 1908. A preliminary review of the classification of the order Strepsiptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 9: 75-85 (as Bruesia australensis (Perkins, 1905))

Pierce, W.D. 1911. Notes on insects of the order Strepsiptera, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 40: 487-511 (as Pentoxocera australensis (Perkins, 1905))

Pierce, W.D. 1918. The comparative morphology of the order Strepsiptera, together with records and descriptions of the insects. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 54: 391-501 (as Pentoxocera australensis (Perkins, 1905))

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