Species Hindoloides appendiculata (Hacker, 1926)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Polychaetophyes appendiculata Hacker, H. 1926. New species of Queensland Cercopidae (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3): 243-248 [247].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Ho.3051 ♀ (coll.: H. Hacker, December), Bunya Mountains, Queensland, 3000 ft.
• Soa tmetoptera Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [47].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM ♀ ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: October), Mt Tambourine, Qld.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [13]

 

Generic Combinations

• Hindoloides appendiculata (Hacker, 1926). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [330]
• Soamachaerota appendiculata (Hacker, 1926). —
  Metcalf, Z.P. 1960. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VII, Cercopoidea. Part 1, Machaerotidae. Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 43 pp. [20–21]

 

Introduction

This small shiny brown insect is the only representative of the Hindoloidini in Australia. Its nymphs produce a distinctive snail-like tube around small twigs of eucalypt trees. The species is only known from coastal areas of SE Queensland and NE New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Male. Shining black; gena, lorum and tentorial pit brown. Tegmen variable in color, in paler specimens, nearly colorless with large, roundish, brownish black marking at disc and at claval apex, costal margin brownish black at extreme base and at middle 1/3, brown at basal 1/3 of clavus; in darker specimens, brown, paler at both ends of cell 1r, at apical 1/3 of 1m and at apical cells (apical cell 2 and antero-apical corner of clavus nearly colorless), brownish black along nearly full length of costal margin, and greyish yellow at corial appendix, forming an inconspicuous broad fascia crossing middle of corium. Tegminal veins brown or brownish black, more or less paler basally. Knees, tibiae (both ends) and tarsi of fore and mid legs brown, hind tibia also brown. Postclypeus evenly convex, minutely punctate. Tylus smooth, distinctly concave, with a median furrow; side piece of vertex shallowly depressed, obliquely wrinkled; tentorial pit roundish, very shallow; occipital margin slightly reflexed; ocellar area discally slightly depressed; supra-antennal triangle usually ill-defined, finely wrinkled. Pronotum coarsely wrinkled; calli rather shallow, transverse; lateral corner obliquely wrinkled. Scutellum coarsely punctate-rugose, sometimes with a weak short carina at middle 1/3; median area near base more or less depressed; extreme apex depressed, nearly smooth. Tegmen coarsely punctate at basal 1/2 of clavus, elsewhere smooth; cells at apical 1/4 of of corium distinctly concave; ambient vein much weaker than neighbouring ones; corial appendix with undulate longitudinal wrinkles; basicostal area deeply depressed; veins (except R+M and abscissae 1 of R and M) with small, scattered, setigerous punctures; cells 1r and 1m also with few such punctures. Lateral tubercle of metathorax weakly developed. Relative lengths of pronotum and scutellum 25 : 26; relative breadths of head, pronotum and scutellum 31 : 37 : 16. Tegmen 3.7-4.0 mm long.
Female. Similar. Reddish brown; postclypeus medially black, laterally with about 6 testaceous, hairy transverse lines. Tegmen yellowish hyaline, with a rather broad and conspicuous brown fascia across middle of corium; clavus largely brown, paler at anterobasal area; veins brown, also paler near base. Tibiae largely brown. Venter of thorax testaceous, abdomen brown to black. Side piece of vertex hardly concave; pronotal wrinkles weaker. Tegmen 5 mm long. (Maa 1963)

 

Diagnosis References

Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [14]

 

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