Species Ishidaella latomarginata (Distant, 1917)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tettigoniella latomarginata Distant, W.L. 1917. Descriptions of some Ethiopian and Australian Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 20: 186-191 [190].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 1900), Upper North Pine, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Young, D.A. 1965. Cicadelline types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(4): 163-199 [181].

 

Generic Combinations

• Kolla latomarginata (Distant, 1917). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [147]
• Ishidaella latomarginata (Distant, 1917). —
  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 similar in general appearance to other species of the genus found in the coastal areas between the wet tropics of North Queensland to the Sydney basin of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum and scutellum ochraceous; vertex with five black spots, three anterior and submarginal and two basal; pronotum with a transverse central basal spot, sometimes broken centrally, and a small spot near each anterior angle black; scutellum unspotted; body beneath and legs ochraceous; tegmina olivaceous green, with a broad pale ochraceous costal margin. Long., incl. tegm., 7–8 mm (Distant 1917).

Young (1986) provides illustrations of the male genitalia.

 

ID Keys

Young 1986: 128

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1917. Descriptions of some Ethiopian and Australian Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 20: 186-191 [190]

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 [125, 128]

 

History of changes

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