Species Saccharodite chrysonoe (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Saccharodite chrysonoe (Kirkaldy), adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhotana chrysonoe Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [435].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, arboreal), Kuranda, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Saccharodite chrysonoe Kirkaldy, 1906. —
  Fennah, R.G. 1969. Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. Pacific Insects Monographs 21: 1-116 [69]

Introduction

This small golden and brown species with hyaline wings is relatively common along the east coast and neighbouring ranges of New South Wales and Victoria. It is usually found it moist environments.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

Differs from the three Sinhalese species and probably from the Bornean (from which it differs abundantly and otherwise) by the short head which does not extend half the length of an eye beyond anterior margin of eyes. Pale luteous (metanotum and base of abdomen sanguineous in fresh example), rostrum, sterna, legs etc., paler. Tegmina and wings hyaline, iridescent; veins testaceous, faintly infumate broadly on each side of most of the transverse veins of the tegmina. Four tiny black specks on the radial vein. The subapical line is a little more irregular than in R. vitriceps. Length: 2.5 mill to apex of abdomen, 4.5–4.75 to apex of tegmina (Kirkaldy 1906).

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 [435]

History of changes