Species Paradorydium menalus Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Paradorydium menalus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [339].

  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 [46].
• Paradorydium menalaus Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [137] [subsequent misspelling].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1221]

 

Introduction

This species has the head extended extremely in front of the body to the point that it makes up more than 40% of the overall length of the animal. Records of the species are patchy and although there are no records from New South Wales, its distribution from SE Queensland to Tasmania indicates that it almost certainly occurs throughout the eastern seaboard south of Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, Tas, Vic: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Testaceous, or more or less rosy, or more or less tinged with ferruginous, veins paler. Head, pronotum and scutellum obscurely and smudgily flecked with blackish brown, the punctures being darkish. Sterna and sternites usually more or less tinged with pinkish. Elongate fusiform; head about as long as nota and tegmina together, gradually converging towards apex which is angularly rounded; sides acutely carinate for at least the anterior two thirds. Head, pronotum and scutellum finely and closely punctured, clavus lightly punctured. Vertex, pronotum and scutellum longitudinally carinate. Frons very strongly carinate. A little swollen near the clypeus. Pronotum with two sublateral keels on each side, a little more obsolescent than the median one. Basal margin slightly angularly emarginate. Tegmina longer than abdomen. Length: 10½ (male); 12 (female) mm; width about 7/8 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [339]

 

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