Species Petalocephala bohemani Stål, 1854

Petalocephala bohemani Stål, adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Petalocephala bohemani Stål, C. 1854. Nya Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 11(8): 231-255 [251].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: E. Jacobsen (Bierman 1910)), Java.
• Rhotidus ingens Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [366].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: xi.1904), Bundaberg, Queensland.
• Rhotidus flavomaculatus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [367].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: ix.1904), Bundaberg, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [103] (synonymy of R. flavomaculatus with R. ingens)
• Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [104] (synonymy of R. ingens)

Introduction

This species is similar in general structure to species of Rubria Stål in that both genera lack the knobbled texture and carinate dorsum of other Australian Ledrinae although species of Rubria lack the reticulated wing venation found in the Ledrini, including Petalocephala.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Dilute flavescens, rugosopunctata; capite subparalello, apice late rotundato; thorace basi leviter sinuato; hemelytris dense punctatis, costa basin versus flava. Long. 12, lat. 3¾ mm. (Stål 1854).

Yellowish cinereous, paler beneath. Eyes dark, ocelli red. Closely and obsolescently irrorate with pallid yellowish. Closely and strongly punctured. Vertex longer than wide, slightly carinate longitudinally, sloping down on each side of this, apical margin narrowly angulate. Rostrum not reaching to base of mesosternum. Anterior margin of pronotum rounded, posterior margin almost truncate at scutellum. Posterior tibiae 4-spined. Length 12 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906, of Rhotidus ingens).

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 [366–367]

Stål, C. 1854. Nya Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 11(8): 231-255 [251]

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