Species Pascoepus nymphias (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Idiocerus nymphias Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [33].

  Type data:

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

  Subsequent designation references:

  Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [56].
• Idiocerus oreias Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [33].

  Type data:

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

  Subsequent designation references:

  Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [56].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [56] (synonymy of I. oreias)

 

Generic Combinations

• Pascoepus nymphias (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [56]

 

Introduction

This species is reasonably common and widespread in SE Australia although it is variable in colouring. There are probably more specimens in unsorted Idiocerinae in collections.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Mulga Lands (ML), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Melaleuca sp. [MYRTACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Greyish testaceous, vertex ventrally with two small spots anteriorly, almost concealed by pronotum. Scutelum with two small wedge-like spots anteriorly, partly concealed by the pronotum. Veins of corium sanguineous (sometimes brownish). Length 3½ mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

This species can be distinguished by the presence of four small brown spots on the pronotum in most specimens, and by the shape of the male abdominal apodemes and male and female genitalia (Webb 1983).

 

ID Keys

Webb 1983: 51–52

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [33]

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [56–57]

 

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	Idiocerinae Baker, 1915	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED