Species Ishidaella pettimolua (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tetigonia pettimolua Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [321].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: i-ii.1905), Sydney, New South Wales.
• Cicadella heroni Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [3].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: W. Heron), Ulong, East Dorrigo, New South Wales.
• Cicadella sidnica 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.: J.W. Evans), Sydney, New South Wales.

 

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. heroni and C. sidnica )

 

Generic Combinations

• Ishidaella pettimolua (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  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 distributed along the eastern seaboard of New South Wales. It is easily confused with other species of the genus found in the same regions and only male genitalia can reliably differentiate it from its congeners.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pale ochraceous, with the following markings blackish tinged more or less with metallic greenish or bluish - on the anterior margin of the head - three rather blotchy spots and two at the base; the lateral margins of the pronotum and two spots at the apical margin; at the base a blotch which is somewhat of the conventional figure of a bat with outstretched wings, the "head" touching the interoposterior angles of the anterior spots. Scutellum with three anterior spots. Frons with two submedian longitudinal stripes, sometimes meeting posteriorly; these are shortly pectinate, representing the usual striations on the Tetigonia frons, but the lateral parts of the striations are pale ochraceous, concolorous with the ground color of the face. Tegmina dark metallic green, costal cell opaque whitish (or pale yellowish) narrowly bordered with black. Abdominal tergites mostly bluish black. Anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi dark. Male penultimate sternite roundly emarginate, ultimate truncate, plates formed much as in T. parthaon but about three times as long as last sternite, more elongate apically and there curving upwards (towards the dorsum), plentifully fringed with soft long white hairs. Female last sternite roundly emarginate, laterally angulate, pygofers about 2¾ times as wide as the above, medianly swollen, apically roundly subtruncate in profile; furnished with short black hairs. Length 6½–7 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

Young (1986) provides illustrations of the male genitalia.

 

ID Keys

Young 1986: 128

 

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 [321–322]

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 [126, 128]

 

History of changes

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