Species Ishidaella albomarginata (Signoret, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tettigonia albomarginata Signoret, V.A. 1853. Revue Iconographique des Tettigonides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 1: 13-40, 323-374, 661-688 [347].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ♂ (Signoret collection), Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Young, D.A. & Beier, M. 1964. Types of Cicadellinae (Homoptera : Cicadellidae) in the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 67: 565-575 [566].
• Cicadella dianae Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [4].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: A.M. Lea), National Park, Tasmania.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Young, D.A. 1986. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) Part 3. Old World Cicadellini. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service 281: 1-639 [128] (synonymy of C. dianae )

 

Generic Combinations

• Kolla albomarginata (Signoret, 1853). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [146]
• Ishidaella albomarginata (Signoret, 1853). —
  Young, D.A. 1986. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) Part 3. Old World Cicadellini. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service 281: 1-639 [128]

 

Introduction

This species is common along the eastern coastline of Australia from the wet tropics of North Queensland to southern Tasmania.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Tête fortement arrondie au-delà des yeux, jaune, avec cinq macules sur le vertex, deux bandes frontales et une tache apicale en dessous. Prothorax deux fois plus large que long, avec une bande médiane et quatre taches noires de chaque côté. Ecusson avec deux taches basilaires. Elytres d'un noir plombe, avec le bord externe blanc; le tout recouvert, dans l'état frais, d'une poussière pruniforme. Ailes noires. Abdomen et pattes jaunes, le premier noir en dessus. Long. 0.008 ♀, ♂ (Signoret 1853).

Young (1986) provides illustrations of the male genitalia.

 

ID Keys

Young 1986: 128

 

Diagnosis References

Signoret, V.A. 1853. Revue Iconographique des Tettigonides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 1: 13-40, 323-374, 661-688 [317–318]

Young, D.A. 1986. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) Part 3. Old World Cicadellini. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service 281: 1-639 [124, 128]

 

History of changes

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