Genus Scaphoideus Uhler, 1889

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• Scaphoideus Uhler, P.R. 1889. New Genera and species of American Homoptera. Transactions of the Maryland Academy of Sciences 1: 33-44 [33].

  Type species:

   Jassus immistus Say, 1830 by subsequent designation, see Distant, W.L. 1908. Rhynchota Malayana, Part I. Records of the Indian Museum 2: 127-151 [151].
• Bolanus Distant, W.L. 1918. Rhynchota. Homoptera: Appendix. Heteroptera: Addenda. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 7(i-viii): 1-210 [89].

  Type species:

   Bolanus baeticus Distant, 1918 by original designation.
• Hussa Distant, W.L. 1918. Rhynchota. Homoptera: Appendix. Heteroptera: Addenda. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 7(i-viii): 1-210 [68].

  Type species:

   Hussa insignis Distant, 1918 by original designation.
• Angenus DeLong, D.M. & Knull, D.J. 1971. New species of Scaphoideus. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 44(1): 54-59 [54] [first introduced as a subgenus of Scaphoideus Uhler, 1889].

  Type species:

   Jassus immistus Say, 1830 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Matsumura, S. 1932. The typhlocybid genera of the late Distant. Insecta Matsumurana 6: 190-191 [190] (synonymy of Bolanus)
• Barnett, D.E. 1977. A revision of the Nearctic species of the genus Scaphoideus (Homoptera : Cicadellidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 102: 485-593 [494] (synonymy of Hussa and S. (Angenus))

 

Introduction

The genus Scaphoideus is represented in tropical and subtropical coastal areas of New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory with three species. The species are narrow leafhoppers, coloured white with orange, red, brown and black markings. Little is known of their biology although they are associated with forests and at least two species overseas are known vectors of plant diseases, the best known being S. titanus Ball which transmits Flavescence dorée in Europe. The Australian species were reviewed by Fletcher and Semeraro (2001).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

North Queensland.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Daly Basin (DAB)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Diagnosis

Delicate leafhoppers, normally white with patterns of brown, black and orange. Face evenly convex bilaterally; anteclypeus with lateral margins diverging from base to apex, apically rounded, not reaching level with lora; ocelli marginal immediately adjacent to eyes. Vertex flat to slightly convex, anteriorly triangularly produced and acutely rounded to face. Antennae longer than head is wide. Pronotum short, evenly concave posteriorly, with fine longitudinal lateral carinae behind eye. Tegmen reaching approximately to apex of absomen, roundly truncate with appendix reaching just beyond apex. Anterior radial veins short and reflexed. First preapical cell small, basally stemmed; third preapical cell open basally. Male pygofer elongate, adorned with long macrosetae in a vertical line subapically and a broad patch of shorter macrosetae on apical half. Connective Y-shaped, fused with basal processes and parameres laterally. Aedeagus with dorsal apodeme medially and lateral apodemes at base articulating with pygofer, remote from connective (Fletcher & Semeraro 2001).

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. & Semeraro, L. 2001. The genus Scaphoideus Uhler in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 40(1): 1-8 [2]

 

General References

Fletcher, M.J. & Semeraro, L. 2001. The genus Scaphoideus Uhler in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 40(1): 1-8 [1]

 

History of changes

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