Species Nycheuma anderida (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dicranotropis anderida Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [133].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: viii.1904, Perkins), Cairns, Queensland.
  Paralectotype(s) BPBM 2 ♀, Cairns, Queensland; BPBM ♀, Brisbane, Queensland; BPBM ♀, Rewa, Fiji; BPBM ♀ (The specimen bears a red label with the following data: ‘Type of anderida Kirk.’ and a further label stating ‘Nilaparvata lugens (Stål); = not lugens! Asche det II.87’), Cairns, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bellis, G.A. & Donaldson, J.F. 2015. Reassessment of some of Kirkaldy's Australian species of Delphacini (Hemiptera: Delphacidae: Delphacinae). Austral Entomology 1-13 [First published on line 17 December 2015 with pagination 1–13. Print version published August 2016, vol 55(3), 247-260] [4].
• Dicranotropis cognata Muir, F. 1917. Homopterous Notes. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 3(4): 311-338 [317].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂ (vi.1904), Brisbane, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bellis, G.A. & Donaldson, J.F. 2015. Reassessment of some of Kirkaldy's Australian species of Delphacini (Hemiptera: Delphacidae: Delphacinae). Austral Entomology 1-13 [First published on line 17 December 2015 with pagination 1–13. Print version published August 2016, vol 55(3), 247-260] [4] (synonymy of Dicranotropis cognata)

Generic Combinations

• Thymalops anderida (Kirkaldy, 1907) [misidentification]. —
  Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [20]
• Delphacodes anderida (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Muir, F. 1917. Homopterous Notes. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 3(4): 311-338 [335]
• Queenslandicesa anderida (Kirkaldy, 1907) [misidentification]. —
  Koçak, A.Ö. & Kemal, M. 2010. Some replacement names among the genus group names in various families of the order Homoptera. Priamus 12(5): 128–130 [128]
• Nycheuma anderida (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Bellis, G.A. & Donaldson, J.F. 2015. Reassessment of some of Kirkaldy's Australian species of Delphacini (Hemiptera: Delphacidae: Delphacinae). Austral Entomology 1-13 [First published on line 17 December 2015 with pagination 1–13. Print version published August 2016, vol 55(3), 247-260] [4]

Introduction

This species is recorded from the wet tropics of North Queensland and is distributed around the SW Pacific from Fiji to Taiwan and Indonesia. Muir (1917) gives a record from "Lappa Island, South China" which is a small island near Macau. It may be the same as "Lamma Island" which is part of the Southwestern Islands component of Hong Kong. Adult females are orange-brown while the males are a little darker and both sexes have the tegmina darkened towards the apical half.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Male. Blackish brown, lighter over carinae and on pronotum and legs; abdomen darker with light marks on base and pleura; tegmina hyaline, veins brown, darker on apical half, a dark mark on margin at apex of clavus; some specimens are lighter in colour and more of a Sanford's brown. Vertex as long as wide; length of face 2.3 times the width, sides nearly straight, slightly narrowed between the eyes, furcation of medio-frontal carina sometimes indistinct; antennae reaching nearly to middle of clypeus, second joint 1.5 times the length of first; lateral carinae of pronotum divergingly curved, not reaching hind margin; hind tibiae short, first joint not quite so long as other two together with 2–4 small spines near its base, spur slightly longer than first joint, broad, laminate, with numerous small teeth on hind margin. The aedeagus is thin, cylindrical, swollen about the middle where the opening is situated, beyond this it is drawn out to a fine, curved point; anal spines larger, slightly diverging. Length 2 mm; tegmen 2.8 mm (Muir 1917)

Female. Orange brown, the keels of vertex and nota, and the parts exterior to the lateral keels of the nota mostly, pale yellowish testaceous. Frontal keels very narrowly bordered with pale yellowish orange, frontal specks the same colour. Antennae pale orange testaceous, apex of first segment dark fuscous. Tegmina pale yellowish hyaline, veins of basal two thirds mostly pale, of apical cells fuscous somewhat suffusedly. Frons elongate, narrower, subparallel, a little constricted basally, forked a little basal of the apical margin of the eyes. Tegminal veins very feebly granulate. Short winged form: tegmina much as in D. hamata, the apical cells, or at least one of them, fuscous. Abdomen more or less infuscate laterally. Length 2.5 (brachypterous), 4 1/8 (macropterous) 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 [133–134]

Muir, F. 1917. Homopterous Notes. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 3(4): 311-338 [336]

History of changes