Species Paradorydium brighami Kirkaldy, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paradorydium brighami Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [72].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Mittagong, New South Wales.

  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 [38].
• Deltodorydium leai Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera) Part 4. — (Ledridae, Ulopidae and Euscelidae, Paradorydiini). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 37-50 [46].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (coll.: A.M. Lea), Mittagong, New South Wales.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [138] (synonymy of D. leai )

 

Introduction

This species, which has been recorded from localities in the Sydney basin of New South Wales, the southern Riverina in Victoria and near Hobart, Tasmania, has the head considerably less elongated that other species in the genus apart from the tiny P. viridis (Evans) from Western Australia and P. cooki (Evans) from South Australia. It was named "in honour of Dr. W. T. Brigham, Director of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, whose "Index to the Islands of the Pacific" (1900 Mem. Bishop Mus. I, 1-172) is of such great value to the student of Pacific Faunas" (Kirkaldy 1907).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Distinguished from the other species by the short vertex. Pale yellowish, closely punctured with light brownish, the punctures being closer and darker on the basal half of the pronotum. Head close around insertion of antennae, the labium, sterna, etc., dark fuscous. Sternites (except the last segment which with the genital segments is pallid) infuscate. Fore femora ringed with fuscous. Vertex acute anteriorly, lateral margins straight, Frons anterior to the antennae diamond-shaped, then the lateral margins parallel, the insertion of the antennae about on a line with the apical margin of the eyes (instead of distinctly nearer the anterior angle of the head) ; apical margin of clypeus minutely notched, extending apically distinctly beyond the apical margin of the genae. Male: vertex nearly twice as long as pronotum; maximum width greater than median length. Female: vertex about twice and a half as long as the pronotum; maximum width less than median length. 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 [72–73]

 

General References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [72–73]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	20-Oct-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		10-Jun-2014	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)