Species Micrelloides polemon (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Deltocephalus polemon Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [56].

  Type data:

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

  Subsequent designation references:

  Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1993. Lectotype designations and new synonymies for G. W. Kirkaldy's Australian Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) held in the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. General and Applied Entomology 25: 35-59 [50].
• Micrelloides molaris Evans, J.W. 1973. Some new genera and species of Cicadelloidea from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera). Pacific Insects 15(2): 185-197 [189].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: iv.1971, M. Wallace), Millstream area, Western Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fletcher, M.J. 2004. A revision of the genus Horouta Knight with description of two new species and notes on other species of Deltocephalinae (Hemipter: Cicadellidae). General and Applied Entomology 33: 45-54 [52]

 

Generic Combinations

• Micrelloides polemon (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Fletcher, M.J. 2004. A revision of the genus Horouta Knight with description of two new species and notes on other species of Deltocephalinae (Hemipter: Cicadellidae). General and Applied Entomology 33: 45-54 [52]

 

Introduction

M. polemon is widespread across the top end of Australia from Onslow in the Carnarvon region of Western Australia to SE Queensland. The species is distinctive in the shape of its head and the colouring. The male genitalia includes a circular ring with processes and is unlike any other species in Australia although there are similarities with species of Soractellus Evans.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Vertex testaceous, with a faint olivaceo-fuscous stripe on each side of the median line, terminating apically in a fuscous speck. Face piceous, frons with 5 or 6 thin, concentric, curved inwardly abbreviated pale yellowish-brown lines. Pronotum testaceous, with 3 longitudinal pale olive-fuscous stripes on each side, the innermost broad and continuing on to the scutellum. Tegmina dilute yellowish cinereous, veins whitish testaceous, narrowly and irregularly margined with fuscous, apical cells mostly dark fuscous, the first and second apical veins whitish. Sterna and abdomen mostly dark fuscous or piceous, marked with pallid. Male: valve short, triangular; plates little longer than the valve, the two taken together deeply emarginate angularly in the middle; pygophor more than twice as long medianly as the plates. Female: last sternite roundly emarginate, bluntly angulate at the sides; apex of pygophor pale, with particoloured bristles (yellow and dark fuscous.) Length 3½ mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [56–57]

 

History of changes

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