Species Petyllis deprivata (Walker, 1858)

Petyllis deprivata (Walker), adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Monecphora deprivata Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [179].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown (presented by the Haslar Hospital), Australia.
• Petyllis australensis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [382].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905), Mittagong, New South Wales.
• Haematoscarta flavifrons Schmidt, E. 1925. Fünf neue Zikadenarten (Schluss). Societas Entomologica. Stuttgart 40: 39-40 [40] [junior subjective synonym of Monecphora deprivata Walker, 1858].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, New South Wales.

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 [314] (synonymy of P. australensis and H. flavifrons)

Generic Combinations

• Petyllis deprivata (Walker, 1858). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [314]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

Diagnosis

Testacea; thorax fascia antica interrupta nigra; posticae cinereovitreae.
Testaceous, unvarying. Prothorax with an interrupted black band in front. Hind wings grayish vitreous. Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 5 lines. (Walker 1858).

Brownish testaceous, with yellowish pubescence. Apical part of vertex and basal part of frons black, rest of vertex reddish; ocelli reddish. Pronotum tinged in places with reddish. Tegmina with 2 faint, somewhat broad whitish transverse bands. Wing nervures pallid. Length 7¾ mm. (Kirkaldy 1906, as Petyllis australensis)

Length, male female, 6-8.6 mm. General coloration pale brown or reddish brown with fine golden pubescence. Tegmen coriaceous, with an apparent transverse white fascia immediately behind the scutellum which is associated with a change in the colour of the pubescence, and not of the tegmen. (Evans 1966)

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [314]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [382]

Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [179]

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