Species Rubria informis (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhotidus informis 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.: vii.1904), Nelson (=Gordonvale), nr Cairns, Queensland.
• Rhotidus ledropsiformis 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.: xi.1904), Brisbane, Queensland.
• Rhotidus viridescens Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [368].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: ii.1905), Sydney, 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 [103] (synonymy of R. ledropsiformis, R. viridescens)

 

Generic Combinations

• Rubria informis (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [103]

 

Introduction

This uniformly coloured, broad species with triangular vertex is widespread across southern Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Very similar to R. ingens but vertex shorter and more pointed apically. Length: 10 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

General coloration brownish yellow (dried specimens). Pronotum sometimes brownish, mottled with yellow. Tegmen hyaline or near opaque. May be distinguished from R. brevifrons by having the crown somewhat triangular in shape and, unlike R. brevifrons, the sides of the crown immediately in front of the eyes are not parallel with each other. Length ♂ 7–8 mm, ♀ 9–10 mm, of crown of head 2.8 mm (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 [103]

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]

 

History of changes

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