Species Pedioscopus disjunctus Baker, 1915

Pedioscopus disjunctus Baker, adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Pedioscopus disjunctus Baker, C.F. 1915. Studies in Philippine Jassoidea, IV: the Idiocerini of the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science 10(D): 317-343 [331].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown, Los Banos and Mount Maquiling, Luzon, Philippines.

Introduction

This small handsomely striped species is native to the Philippines and was first identified in Australia in 2000 from specimens collected at Bukudal and Branbran in the remote Arnhem coastal bioregion of the Northern Territory by Glenn Bellis, NAQS, in 1998. They were swept from Semecarpus australiensis Engl. (Anacardiaceae).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Semecarpus australiensis Engler [ANACARDIACEAE]).

Diagnosis

Ochraceous, in the female with black as follows: Two large, round spots on pronotum, two on apex of head, two just within ocelli, apical margin of front, all of clypeus, and most of lorae and ovipositor; head in male lacking black. Tegmina with basal two thirds of costal vein, and a broad stripe along median vein as far as cross veins, black; corium within the black stripe, and all of clavus except commissure, opaque yellow; between the black stripe and costa, and the region of the apical cells, semitransparent. Vertex, and face as far as ocelli, finely, transversely wrinkled, genae coarsely but shallowly, obliquely wrinkled, remainder of face shagreened; head wider than pronotum; lengths of vertex into width between eyes little more than three times; length at middle distinctly greater than at eyes. Face about as broad as long, distance between ocelli more than three times the distance between ocelli and eyes, and more than three times the width of clypeus at base; front slightly broader than long; clypeus broadened apically, and apical margin slightly emarginate; lorae as long as clypeus, and nearly as wide as clypeus at base. Width of pronotum two and a fourth times the length, the length two times that of vertex. Surface of pronotum and anterior field of scutellum very finely subobsoletely shagreened. Scutellum as long as pronotum and about a third of the vertex together; transverse impressed line short, straight; posterior field shallowly, transversely wrinkled. Tegmina with very minute, scattering, dark punctures along the claval veins; veins of corium subobsolete basally; second apical cell sessile. Hind margin of anal segment of female medially long and narrowly produced; pygofers slender and long-haired. Length, 3.75 mm; width of head, 1.25 mm. (Maldonado Capriles 1972).

ID Keys

Maldonado Capriles 1972: 530–531

Diagnosis References

Baker, C.F. 1915. Studies in Philippine Jassoidea, IV: the Idiocerini of the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science 10(D): 317-343 [331–332]

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 [530–531]

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