Species Macropsella thoantias (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macropsis thoantias Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [37].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀ (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales
  Comment: Hamilton (1980: 877) has attempted to designate a lectotype for this species but ICZN Article 74.3 expressly disallows lectotype designations that are not individual.

 

Generic Combinations

• Macropsella thoantias (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [902]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Macropsis thontias Kirkaldy, 1907 [subsequent misspelling]. —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [160]
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [160]

 

Introduction

This species is only known from the type series in BPBM from Sydney, New South Wales. It is unknown to the compiler.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Resembles the last [Macropsis thyia Kirkaldy = Pedionis (Thyia) thyia (Kirkaldy)], but the face is not ridged and the pronotum is immaculate with dark punctures, tegminal pattern more obscure, a dark line across the base. There are 3 subapical cells. Length 3½ mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

 

ID Keys

Hamilton 1980: 881–884

 

Diagnosis References

Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [881–884]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [37]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		05-May-2014	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)