Genus Pedioscopus Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Pedioscopus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [349].

  Type species:

   Pedioscopus philenor Kirkaldy, 1906 by original designation.

Introduction

This primarily Oriental genus is represented in Australia by two, probably adventive, species, one in North Queensland and the second from the Arnhem Coast of the Northern Territory. They are both yellowish species with brown markings and exhibit sexual dimorphism in colouring.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Allied to Idiocerus Lewis, but differs by having no subapical cells. There is a tegminal appendix, and the supernumerary cell of the wing is present. In the males the antennae are simple. Frons convex, anterolateral margins rounded (Kirkaldy 1906).

A conmprehensive redescription of the species was provided by Maldonado Capriles (1972).

This Oriental genus can be distinguished from other Australian genera by the open second subapical cell of the forewing, the fusion of the male segment X to the pygophore and the very narrow second valvulae of the ovipositor (Webb 1983).

ID Keys

Webb 1983: 4–6

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [349]

Maldonado Capriles, J. 1972. Studies on Idiocerine leafhoppers: VIII. The Papuan genus Pedioscopus and two allied new genera from the Philippine islands. Pacific Insects 14(3): 529-551 [529–530]

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [82]

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