Species Leptolamia compressa (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leptochlamys compressa Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [113].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Löcker, B. 2014. Shedding light on Jacobi's types whilst discovering new species: a taxonomic revision of Leptolamia Metcalf, 1936 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Austral Entomology 53: 391–423 [Article first published online: 14 APR 2014] [493].

 

Generic Combinations

• Leptolamia compressa (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Metcalf, Z.P. 1936. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea. Part 2, Cixiidae. Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 269 pp. [26]

 

Introduction

A small brown species which is fairly common in the Wet Tropics of North Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

 

Diagnosis

Brownish testaceous, a little browner on the scutellum. Beneath testaceous. Tegmina subhyaline testaceous, veins mostly concolorous (except the darker marginal), feebly granulate, apex of subcostal cell and adjacent apical cells, interoapical (rounded) angle, etc., smoky. Length 4 7/8–5 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907)

Colour. Head, thorax (including legs) light brown. Forewing hyaline colourless or light brown with darker marks on clavus and apical margin of forewing; pterostigma darker; veins and tubercles concolorous with cells, sometimes crossveins darker. Abdominal sternites light brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 4.7–5.2 mm, ♀ 5.0–5.4 mm. Head: Vertex 1.6–2.3× wider than long; at level of basal emargination 1.0–1.3× wider than at subapical carina; apical and subapical carina v-shaped; median carina of vertex covering 1∕4–1∕2 of basal compartment of vertex; basal compartment 1.0–1.5× longer than apical compartment. Frons 1.0–1.2× as long as wide; frons clearly visible in dorsal view. Position of maximum width of frons more or less around centre of frontoclypeal suture or distinctly distad of frontoclypeal suture. Frontoclypeal suture semicircular, bent upwards. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae; apical segment of rostrum distinctly shorter than subapical segment. Thorax: Pronotum about same width to moderately wider than head (including eyes). Hind margin of pronotum obtusely, acutely angled or rectangular. Forewing 3.8–4.0× longer than wide; forewing with weakly to well developed basal emargination; costa with about 21–35 tubercles, tubercles concolorous with veins; Sc+R+M near basal cell fused, forming a moderate-to-long (at least half of length of basal cell) common stem Sc+R+M; fork of ScRA+RP at same level or slightly basad of fork CuA1+CuA2; position of r-m basad of fork MA+MP; transverse veinlet M3+4 to Cu1a inserting a tM3+4 at same level or basad of r-m; position of icu at CuA at same level or basad of apex of clavus; position of icu at CuP more or less at same level or slightly distant of apex of clavus; RP apically trifid; MA apically trifid; additional subapical cell between branches of MA present in some specimens; nodus of y-vein slightly basad of centre of clavus; vein delimiting subapical cell C4 distinctly distad of vein delimiting C5; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: 1st tarsomere with 6 apical teeth; 2nd tarsomere with 6 (rarely 7) apical teeth. Male genitalia: Anal tube symmetrical (lobes of equal length) in dorsal and caudal view; lateral lobe triangular in lateral view; ventromedian process of pygofer trapezoid, with two dark teeth inserting dorsally. Aedeagus: Phallotheca with two slender, rounded spines, a short spine (a) and a longer spine (b). Spines (a) and (b) insert at two different sheet-like ridges located on ventral side of phallotheca. Flagellum with two sclerotised spine s. (Löcker 2014).

 

ID Keys

Löcker 2014: 2–3

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [113]

Löcker, B. 2014. Shedding light on Jacobi's types whilst discovering new species: a taxonomic revision of Leptolamia Metcalf, 1936 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Austral Entomology 53: 391–423 [Article first published online: 14 APR 2014] [394–395]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
02-Jun-2014	CIXIIDAE Spinola, 1839	16-May-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
13-Oct-2010		13-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)