Genus Ledropsis White, 1844

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ledropsis White, A. 1844. Descriptions of some new species of Coleoptera and Homoptera from China. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 14: 422-426 [425].

  Type species:

   Ledropsis cancroma White, 1844 by monotypy.
• Scaphocephalus Matsumura, S. 1905. 1000 insects of Japan. Japan : Publisher unknown Vol. 2 pp. 42-70. [52].

  Type species:

   Petalocephala discolor Uhler, 1896 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kato, M. 1931. Japanese Ledridae. Dobutsugako Zasshi, Tokyo (Journal of the Zoological Society of Japan) 43: 431-440 [436] (synonymy of Scaphocephalus)

Introduction

This is a reasonably large genus distributed across the Oriental and eastern Palaearctic regions. Several Australian species have been placed here at various times although all but one have been moved elsewhere. The single Australian species currently in the genus is common in eastern Australia, particularly on Ceratopetalum gummiferum Sm. (Cunoniaceae).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Head with its prolongation longer than wide, in front of the eyes parallel and as wide as the thorax, then gradually curved to the tip, which is somewhat obtuse; ocelli on the same line with the front of the eyes, and rather more distant from each other than they are from the eyes. Eyes large, but not very prominent; prolongation hollowed out beneath, with a spearshaped elevated ridge running down the middle, the base of which, on the face between the eyes, is hollowed out. Antennae spring from a depression in front of the eyes beneath, 3-jointed, the terminal joint ending in a longish bristle. Thorax rounded in front, very deeply notched behind, the posterior angles truncato-rotundate. Hemelytra with many enclosed cells at the end, the nervures strong. Body elongated, beneath margined. Tibiae of hindlegs not dilated, serrated behind (White 1844).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2000) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Tribe Ledrini found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Ledrinae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/ledrinae/led00.htm [accessed: 23.ix.2011]

Diagnosis References

White, A. 1844. Descriptions of some new species of Coleoptera and Homoptera from China. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 14: 422-426 [425–426]

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