Species Pedioscopus philenor Kirkaldy, 1906

Pedioscopus philenor Kirkaldy, adult male.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Pedioscopus philenor Kirkaldy, adult female.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Pedioscopus philenor 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 data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [83].
• Pedioscopus polydoros 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 data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904), Nelson (=Gordonvale), Queensland.
• Pedioscopus agenor Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [350].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [83].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [81] (synonymy of P. agenor with P. polydoros)
• 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 [531] (synonymy of P. polydoros)

Introduction

This species is only known from far North Queensland. Since the genus is primarily Oriental, it is possible that the species is adventive in Australia. As with other species in the genus, the sexes are dimorphic in coloration.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head and pronotum pale greyish-yellow, frons (except narrowly laterally, pallid), clypeus, lorae, small spot at antennal
scrobes, etc., blackish. Pronotum with 2 large rounded black spots. Tegmina hyaline, basal half tinged with yellowish; costa, a longitudinal streak down the middle, the principal veins, more or less, smoky. Apex of anterior tibiae and anterior tarsi black. Male: apex of valve black. Length: 4 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

ID Keys

Maldonado Capriles 1972: 530–531

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 [530–531]

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