Species Pentastiridius (Nesopompe) felis Kirkaldy, 1906

Pentastiridius (Nesopompe) felis (Kirkaldy), adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oliarus felis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [399].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM 1181 ♂ (coll: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [100].
• Oliarus latipennis Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [34].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [100]

Generic Combinations

• Oliarus (Nesopompe) felis (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [107]
• Pentastiridius (Nesopompe) felis (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Holzinger, W.E., Emeljanov, A.F. & Kammerlander, I. 2002. The family Cixiidae Spinola 1839 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) — a review. Denisia 4(176): 113-138 [130]

Introduction

The only representative of a genus found in almost all regions of the world, this species is distributed along the eastern seaboard of Australia from Cairns in North Queensland to Sydney in New South Wales. It has been recorded from rice (Poaceae) and tomato by Löcker et al. (2006) and Sporobolus virginicus (Poaceae) by Hacker (1925) who also provided notes on the life history of the species as Oliarus felis.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body dark brown or black, carinae light brown; legs light brown to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless apically sometimes darker, veins and tubercles concolorous with cells. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 3.9–4.5 mm, ♀ 5.2–5.8 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.1–1.3 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with evanescent or well-developed median carina. Rostrum reaching or surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent or well-developed median and lateral carinae and well-developed sublateral carinae. Forewing 2.6–2.8 times longer than wide; costa with 0–1 tubercles; 9 (rarely 10) apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with two long spines arising apically curving moderately towards left lateral; a short, moderately curved spine arising ventrally about midlength; and a large process, shaped like bird head, right lateral. Flagellum membranous, unarmed. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [101-102]

General References

Hacker, H. 1925. The life history of Oliarus felis Kirk. (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8: 113-114

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [136]

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