Species Paradorydium pseudolyricen Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Paradorydium pseudolyricen Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [340].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: ix-xii.1904, Koebele), Bundaberg, 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 [51].
• Paradorydium casuarinae 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 [47].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ (coll.: J.W. Evans, on Casuarina sp.), Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

 

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 [137] (synonymy of P. casuarinae )

 

Introduction

This species has the anterior extension of the head slightly spatulate apically which is similar to the head extension of Mapochiella rotundata Evans. The species therefore provides an intermediate state between the two genera. A molecular examination of the two genera will probably show that they should be synonymised. P. pseudolyricen is found from Bundaberg in SE Queensland to near Melbourne in Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Casuarina sp. [CASUARINACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Smaller than the preceding [Paradorydium menalus Kirkaldy] and the capital process shorter and more spatulate, the female being more narrowed at the middle of the process. Testaceous, minutely and closely punctured and spotted with brown, apex of process dark brown; two black spots on anterior margin of scutellum near antero-lateral angle. Tegmina pale yellowish brown, lateral margins pallid. Sterna (except laterally) and abdomen (more or less) blackish. Capital process somewhat ascendant apically, about 2½ times as long as the width of the head basally. Tegmina longer than abdomen, with the nota about two-thirds to seven-eighths longer than the head. Length: 5¾ (male), 8¼ (female) 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 [340]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED