Species Lydda lumholtzi (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Lydda lumholtzi (Kirkaldy), adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute

Museums

Regional Maps

• Proutista lumholtzi Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Descriptions et remarques sur quelques Homoptères de la famille des Fulgoroideae vivant sur la canne à sucre. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 51: 123-127 [126] [replacement name; for Sardis maculosa, sensu Kirkaldy].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll: viii.1904. Labelled as holotype), Cairns, Queensland.
  Paralectotype(s) BPBM ♀ (coll: viii.1904. Labelled as allotype), Cairns, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Van Stalle, J. 1992. Redeflnition and revision of Lydda Westwood, 1840 with taxonomic notes on Diostrombus Uhler, 1896 (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea, Derbidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 23(2): 185–213 [204].
• Sardis maculosa Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [433] [misidentification of Phenice maculosa Krueger].

Generic Combinations

• Lydda lumholtzi (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Van Stalle, J. 1992. Redeflnition and revision of Lydda Westwood, 1840 with taxonomic notes on Diostrombus Uhler, 1896 (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea, Derbidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 23(2): 185–213 [204]

Introduction

Kirkaldy's (1906) recognition of Phenice maculosa Krüger was wrong and his designation of this name as the type species for his new genus Sardis created a homonym of Krüger's species. At the same time, Distant's (1906) recognition of the genus Phenice was also wrong when he synonymised Proutista Kirkaldy and, in 1907, Sardis Kirkaldy with it (Distant 1907). Kirkaldy (1907) resurrected Proutista and synonymised Sardis and Distant's version of Phenice with it. In the same paper he created a new name to replace the homonym he had created in 1906. Kirkaldy (1906), in describing the species as P. maculosa, gave locality data for his material. Van Stalle (1992) used this material to establish a lectotype for the species and extended the known Australian distribution to cover a wide area of northern Australia from Darwin in the Northern Territory to Bundaberg in SE Queensland. The species is also known from eastern Indonesia and New Guinea. Kirkaldy (1906) recorded the species (as P. maculosa Krüger) from Pandanus and sugarcane in Cairns, North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

"l'espèce australienne est plus grande [que P. moesta], avec la couleur du mésonotum castanée en majeure partie, les élytres plus tachetées d'hyalin, etc., et je l'appelle maintenant P. Lumholtzi, en l'honneur de Cari Lumholtz, dont les voyages intéressants dans le Queensland sont relatés dans son livre « Among Cannibals ». Il ne se trouve jusque présent qu'au Queensland, sur Pandanus et Saccharum officinarum" (Kirkaldy 1907).

Medio-ventral edge of pygophor produced into a parallelogram-ical process, longer than broad, the sides and apex being slightly concave, in profile the base projecting: lateral edges slightly rounded; anal segment long, bent downward at right angles before the middle, the basal, straight portion subparallel sided, length about three times the breadth, anus one-third from base, the distal bent portion forming a long, finely-pointed spine; styles projecting to bend in anal segment, breadth slightly more than half the length, margins rounded, apex produced into a finely-pointed, inwardly turned spine, on upper margin near base there is another small spine. Last abdominal plate of female in profile excavate in middle, the medio-basal portion produced into strong, short spine, the posterior edge produced regularly in middle (Muir 1913).

L. lumholtzi can be recognised from all other Australian and New Guinean species by the presence of a large spine on the anal segment in the male and the presence of a large basal spine on the pregenital sternite of the female (Van Stalle 1992).

ID Keys

Van Stalle 1992: 189–192

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Descriptions et remarques sur quelques Homoptères de la famille des Fulgoroideae vivant sur la canne à sucre. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 51: 123-127 [126]

Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [73–74]

Van Stalle, J. 1992. Redeflnition and revision of Lydda Westwood, 1840 with taxonomic notes on Diostrombus Uhler, 1896 (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea, Derbidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 23(2): 185–213 [204–205]

General References

Distant, W.L. 1906. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera—Homoptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 3 xiv 503 pp. [296]

Distant, W.L. 1907. A contribution to a knowledge of the entomology of South Africa. Insecta Transvaaliensia 8: 181-204 [195]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [433]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Descriptions et remarques sur quelques Homoptères de la famille des Fulgoroideae vivant sur la canne à sucre. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 51: 123-127 [126]

Van Stalle, J. 1992. Redeflnition and revision of Lydda Westwood, 1840 with taxonomic notes on Diostrombus Uhler, 1896 (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea, Derbidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 23(2): 185–213 [204]

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