Species Pediopsis nikitini (Evans, 1971)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macropsis nikitini Evans, J.W. 1971. Leafhoppers from New Guinea and Australia belonging to the subfamilies Macropsinae and Agalliinae with notes on the position of Nionia Ball and Magnentius Pruthi (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 13(2): 343-360 [356].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K69193 ♂ (coll.: 12.x.1964, M.I. Nikitin), Warwick Farm, New South Wales.

 

Generic Combinations

• Pediopsis nikitini (Evans, 1971). —
  Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [904]

 

Introduction

This species, which is only known from the Sydney basin of New South Wales, has a slight sexual dimorphism with the female pronotum being slightly more declivous than that of the male.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration pale brownish yellow. Face of head yellow; anteclypeus completely separated from postclypeus by a transverse suture; sides of frontoclypeus obscurely defined. Pronotum with transverse striations, anteriorly declivous. Tegmen yellowish hyaline, sometimes with a few dark brown markings. Male genitalia: aedeagus with a pair of subapical spines; apex of aedeagus–10th segment connective spanner-shaped (Evans 1971).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1971. Leafhoppers from New Guinea and Australia belonging to the subfamilies Macropsinae and Agalliinae with notes on the position of Nionia Ball and Magnentius Pruthi (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 13(2): 343-360 [356–357]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		19-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)