Species Homa haematoptila (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eupteryx haematoptilus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [362].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904, possible holotype by monotypy), Redlynch, Queensland.
• Homa insignis Distant, W.L. 1908. Rhynchota. — Vol. IV. Homoptera and Appendix. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 4: 1-501 [400].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll.: Green), Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dworakowska, I. 1969. Two new typhlocybine genera from the Oriental Region with a remark on synonymy (Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques 17: 487-490 [487] (synonymy of H. insignis)

 

Generic Combinations

• Homa haematoptilus (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Dworakowska, I. 1969. Two new typhlocybine genera from the Oriental Region with a remark on synonymy (Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques 17: 487-490 [487]

 

Introduction

This Sri Lankan species is represented in Australia by a single record, possibly a single female specimen, from Redlynch in the wet tropics of North Queensland. It is unknown to the compiler but its coloration should make it distinctive in collections.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Lombok.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum, genital segments, etc, dark, immaculate, blood red, little paler beneath. Eyes black. Scutellum pale luteous. Tegmina subhyaline, more or less tinged with reddish yellow; costal area, apical three -fifths of clavus, a narrow transverse fascia at apical veins, and almost all the veins, more or less blood red; a blackish red spot at the apex of the costal area; the base of the 4th apical area very narrowly, and the apex of the apical areas more or less, infumate. Abdominal tergites blackish, more or less pale reddish in the middle. Underneath (except as above mentioned) and legs pale testaceous. Saw [=ovipositor] black. Vertex a little narrower at base than an eye, hemispheric, slightly convex, length and breadth equal (measured as far as the ocelli), lateral margins straight, very slightly divergent. Frons very convex, narrowly elongate. Ocellar rudiments large. Pronotum about as wide as head and eyes, lateral margins short. Tegmina elongate, evenly rounded at the apex. Venation on colored part of tegmina very indistinct, there are four apical cells the apical parts of three corial cells. The species is easily recognized by the coloring and by the big eyes.
Female: Genital segment at least 4 times as long ventrally as the white, ultimate abdominal segment, which is apically
truncate. Length: 4 mill. (Kirkaldy 1906).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [362–363]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Mar-2012		15-Mar-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)