Species Pedionis (Pedionis) oeroe (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macropsis oeroe Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [36].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, Perkins), Kuranda, Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904, Perkins), Nelson (=Gordonvale), Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Pedionis (Pedionis) oeroe (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [894]

 

Introduction

This endemic species has been found near Dorrigo, on the New South Wales north coast, as well as from the type localities in the wet tropics of North Queensland. Hamilton (1980: 877) questioned the data labels on the Kirkaldy type material since the original description states that the specimens were collected in Kuranda and Nelson and not Cairns as given on the label. However, as pointed out by Medler (1987), Kirkaldy used printed "Cairns, Qld" labels for all his North Queensland material and differentiated the different towns by adding a red "K" for Kuranda or a red "N" for Nelson. The material examined by Hamilton and on which he based his identity of this species would therefore be Kirkaldy's type series.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Northern Australia.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum and scutellum pale ochraceous, closely and finely punctured with purplish-brown. Tegmina hyaline. Pale yellow brown, veins (except the subcostal) dark fuscous, multiannulate with whitish, apical cells and tergites more or less fuscate. Sternites paler. There are only 2 subapical cells; the 1st apical is very small and the second is long, touching the base of the first subapical. (This is a constant character in 8 specimens). 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 [36]

 

General References

Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [877]

Medler, J.T. 1987. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XI. Taxonomic notes on Kirkaldy Types in the Bishop Museum, with illustrations of the genitalia of male lectotypes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 27: 115-125 [115]

 

History of changes

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