Species Pedionis (Thyia) thyia (Kirkaldy, 1907)
Compiler and date details
26 March 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Macropsis thyia 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.
Generic Combinations
- Pedionis (Thyia) thyia (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [895]
Introduction
This species is only known from 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 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
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Resembles the first [Pedionis (Pedionis) oeroe (Kirkaldy)], but more ornate and there is an entire smooth line on the pronotum. The face, unlike the 3 others, in which it is regularly rounded, is unevenly raised or ridged in parts. Pronotum with a curved broken longitudinal blackish brown sublateral line. Tegmina hyaline, strongly punctured with fuscous, the punctures rendering the clavus and base of corium opaque; an irregular band across the tegmina and the apical sixth dark greyish-fuscous, veins fuscous multiannulate with whitish. Legs testaceous closely speckled with fuscous, tibiae multiannulate with whitish. There are three subapical cells. 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 [36–37]
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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| 05-Dec-2019 | 19-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |