Species Pectinariophyes reticulata (Spångberg, 1878)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Carystus reticulatus Spångberg, J. 1878. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita descripsit. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 34(9): 3-14 [12].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♀, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Pectinariophyes reticulata (Spångberg, 1878). —
  Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [45]
• Hindola reticulata (Spångberg, 1878). —
  Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [387]
• Neurohindola reticulata (Spångberg, 1878). —
  Lallemand, V. 1951. Cinquième note sur les Cercopides. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 87: 82-89 [88]

 

Introduction

This stocky, yellow-brown species has been recorded from widely separated localities across three states of Australia. It is commonly attracted to lights and a comprehensive review of material in collections is likely to find it from many other locations than the few recorded here.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mulga Lands (ML), Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Dilute olivaceo-flavescens, vertice, facie pedibusque in ferrugineum migrantibus, limbo costali tegminum ad basin in maribus cuneatim fusco-maculato, apice tarsorum spinisque fere totis pedum posticorum nigris, tegminibus pallide olivaceo-subhyalinis, alis dilute vitreo-subhyalinis, ♂: long. corp. 5.5 mill., long. corp. c. tegm. 8 mill., lat. 3 mill.; ♀: long. corp. 7 mill., long. corp. c. tegm. 11 mill., lat.4 mill. Caput, supra visum, obtuse rotundato-angulatum, inaequale, compluribus impressionibus instructum, medio quam ad oculos distincte longius, fronte sat convexa, subtilissime densissimeque punctata; pronotum dense punctato-rugulosum; scutellum leviter, transversim strigosum, multo longius quam latius; tegmina punctata, medio subdecoloria (Spångberg 1878).

Female: Postclypeus moderately convex, minutely punctate, medially broadly, very slightly flattened and with few fine indistinct longitudinal striae, laterally with about 8 broad shallow transverse impressed lines. Gena and lorum minutely punctate, with indistinct longitudinal striae; relative breadths of pleurostome and lorum and length of gena proper 7 : 3 : 5. Side piece of vertex coarsely, deeply, obliquely wrinkled; tentorial pit oblong, moderately deep; supra-antennal triangle about 2.5 x as broad as long, depressed; occipital margin slightly reflexed; tylus flattened or weakly depressed, shallowly, irregularly rugose, more than 2 x as broad as long; ocellar area with indistinct median carina; area immediately outside of ocellus depressed. Pronotum coarsely punctate-reticulate, with meshes at anterior 1/2 fairly deep, often darker than ground color and about as long as wide, becoming coarser, wider (approximately 2/3 as long as wide), shallower and same as ground color toward posterior pronotal margin; anterior marginal area narrowly, shallowly depressed; calli shallow. Scutellum coarsely, rather shallowly wrinkled throughout; apical 1/3 flattened. Tegmen coarsely punctate all over; apical and preapical cells practically plane; veins fairly prominent, ir, rm and mcu crossveins about 2-10, 4-9 and 3-6 in number respectively (not counting ambient vein); R branched before middle of costal margin; Rs subparallel to C nearly for entire length; clavus with 2 longitudinal and 1-2 crossveins, longitudinal vein 2, basally indistinct; corial appendix slightly shorter and narrower than claval appendix. Relative lengths and breadths of head, pronotum and scutellum 15 : 37 : 44 and 53 : 54 : 25.5 respectively (measured from holotype). Body length 8-11 mm, tegmen 6.6-8 mm.
Male. Similar. Slightly darker; tegmen apically stained brown. Relative lengths and breadths of head, pronotum and scutellum 12 : 35 : 35 and 45 : 44.5 : 20 respectively. Body length 8.1 mm, tegmen 6.8. (Maa 1963)

 

ID Keys

Maa (1963: 44)

 

Diagnosis References

Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [45]

Spångberg, J. 1878. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita descripsit. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 34(9): 3-14 [12]

 

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