Species Pediopsis thymele (Kirkaldy, 1907)
Compiler and date details
27 March 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Macropsis thymele 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 ♂ (coll.: ix.-xii.1904, Koebele), Bundaberg, Queensland
Comment: Hamilton (1980: 877) has attempted to designate a lectotype for this species but ICZN Article 74.3 expressly disallows lectotype designations that are not individual.
Generic Combinations
- Pediopsis thymele (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
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 is the only described species of the genus recorded in Queensland although there are probably undescribed species present in that state.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Close to the last [Macropsis oeroe = Pedionis (Pedionis) oeroe (Kirkaldy)] but the punctures are fainter, and the anterior half of the pronotum is lightly keeled or at least there is a smooth line there. Tegmina pale yellowish hyaline, nervures weaker, concolorous, a fuscous speck at apex of sutural cell, another at apex of clavus; a transverse vein in the subcostal, and the 1st subapical vein, &c., fuscous. There are three subapical cells. Length 4 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]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 19-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |