Species Philagra concolor Hacker, 1926

Museums

Regional Maps

• Philagra concolor Hacker, H. 1926. New species of Queensland Cercopidae (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3): 243-248 [246].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM ♀ (coll.: 26.iii.1924, H. Hacker), Mapleton, Queensland.
  Paralectotype(s) QM 2 ♂ (coll.: 19.x.1924, H. Hacker), Southport, Queensland; QM 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (coll.: W. Davidson), Tamborine Mountain, Queensland; QM 5 ♂, 6 ♀ (coll.: i.1926, Hacker), Tooloom, New South Wales.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. A review of the Australian aphrophorid spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42(1): 84-93 [88].

 

Introduction

This plain brown species has been recorded in SE Queensland and NE New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

Nymph: live in spittle.

 

Diagnosis

Female. Head produced, somewhat tapering, inclined upward, acutely pointed, with carina as in P. fulvida; frons and clypeus have a smooth light central ridge, sides of frons have a series of oblique ridges; punctures on head, pronotum, and tegmina somewhat finer than in P. fulvida; tegmina finely punctured with larger scattered punctures among them; the whole dorsal surface is the same shade of fulvo-olivaceous, excepting the tapering apex of head, and the extreme tips of tegmina, which are fuscous; apical half of rostrum, anterior tarsi, intermediate claws, tips of spines and the claws on posterior legs, blackish; abdomen reddish brown, anal style and ovipositor fuscous. Length 10.5 mm, exp. 16 mm.
Male. Head slightly shorter and stouter than in the female, size smaller; length 9 mm, exp. 14 mm. (Hacker 1926)

Length, male & female, 9-10.5 mm. Evenly yellowish-brown in colour, the tegmina unpatterned. Crown of head approximately equal in width to the pronotum and scutellum combined. (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 [322]

Hacker, H. 1926. New species of Queensland Cercopidae (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3): 243-248 [246]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
30-May-2010		30-May-2010	ADDED
26-Jul-2010		30-May-2010	MODIFIED
		24-Mar-2010	MODIFIED