Species Perkinsiella thompsoni Muir, 1913

Perkinsiella thompsoni Muir, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Perkinsiella thompsoni Muir, F. 1913. On some new Fulgoroidea. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 2(5): 237-269 [240].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM 3095 ♂, ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: Muir, on sugarcane, D.T. Fullaway collection), Guam.

Introduction

This species was described from Guam and has subsequently been identified from Palau, Papua New Guinea, Java, Micronesia and Taiwan. It was first found in Australia, in the far north of Western Australia, in 1997. It is presumed that it is capable of transmitting Fiji Leafgall Disease of sugarcane like other members of the genus. The common name "Asian Sugarcane Planthopper" has been coined for the species for some reason.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: vector.

All stages: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

This species is presumed to be capable of transmitting Fiji Leafgall Disease of sugarcane.

Diagnosis

Vertex, face between eyes, antennae and clypeus dark brown, with two darker marks across face between eyes; face below eyes, thorax, legs and apex of clypeus yellow; pronotum and scutellum darker than ventral side, especially along the sides; a brown spot on each front coxa and a round spot on each mesopleurum; front and middle femora longitudinally striped with brown, a faint brown ring on tibia, spur yellow with black teeth; abdomen brown, pleura and margins of segments yellow. Tegmina hyaline, semiopaque, yellowish over clavus; veins light, studded with brown granules, fuscous along edges of third radial and first median apical veins, and over the base and apex of second median and the entire of third median and first cubital apical cells, except for a round white spot at apex of each cell; wings hyaline with brown veins. Male pygophor rounded, dorsal edge roundly emarginate where anal segment fits in, ventral edge with two thin, long, subparallel, median spines nearly reaching to anal segment; anal segment with a long, slightly curved, strong spine from each ventral corner reaching more than half across pygophor; styles broad and flattened on basal half, the apical portion thinner, bent inward with the apex broadened out into a small, flat surface, the outer and posterior edges of which are produced into short points. Length 2.7 mm; tegmen 3.6 mm. (Muir 1913)

Aedeagus moderately long; a stout spine dorsally at apex, extending dorsocephalad for almost half length of aedeagus, a much shorter spine on right side at about two-thirds from base, directed dorsolaterad, and a small spine on left at middle, close to dorsal margin, directed laterocephalad. Median stem of suspensorium short, longer than broad basally (about 2.5 : 1), with sides shallowly convex in basal half. Mesal margin of first valvifers at base moderately produced in a convex lobe, which is inflected ventrad. First valvulae symmetrical at base (Fennah 1979)

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1979. New species and new records of Perkinsiella (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) from Papua New Guinea. Bulletin of Entomological Research 69: 507–517 [510–511]

Muir, F. 1913. On some new Fulgoroidea. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 2(5): 237-269 [240]

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