Species Scaphoideus foshoi Fletcher & Semeraro, 2001
Scaphoideus foshoi Fletcher & Semeraro, adult.
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Species Scaphoideus foshoi Fletcher & Semeraro, 2001
Fosho's Leafhopper
Compiler and date details
25 July 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Scaphoideus foshoi Fletcher, M.J. & Semeraro, L. 2001. The genus Scaphoideus Uhler in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 40(1): 1-8 [2].
Type data:
Holotype ASCU ♂ (coll.: 17.i.1975, M.J. Fletcher, m.v. lamp), Pearl Beach, nr Woy Woy, New South Wales.
Introduction
This is the most widespread species of the genus in Australia, occurring as far south as the Ovens Valley in Victoria (Trebicki et al. 2010). The species name honours Fosho, a cartoon semipiscine deity invented by the compiler's children as a method of avoiding having to eat fish.
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Oryza spp. [POACEAE]).
Diagnosis
White with brown, black and orange. Face white with 3–4 dark brown to black thin transverse stripes near apex. Vertex white with two transversely elongate spots on front margin between ocelli and apex and two orange/brown patches between eyes. Pronotum white with three indistinct brown patches on each side tending to orange towards midline. Scutellum orange to brown on anterior half tending to dark brown spot at lateral margin, apical half white with marginal spot dark brown merging to orange medially. Tegmen whitish translucent with brown veins and brown lacy pattern in cells of clavus and mid section of tegmen, apical cells smoky brown with dark brown patch at base of third apical cell (Fletcher & Semeraro 2001).
Fletcher & Semeraro (2001) described and figured the male geniltalia and demonstrated some variation from SE Queensland to the Northern Territory in the disposition of the apical processes of the aedeagus.
ID Keys
Fletcher & Semeraro 2001: 2
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 [5–6]
General References
Trebicki, P., Harding, R.M., Rodoni, B., Baxter, G. & Powell, K.S. 2010. Diversity of Cicadellidae in agricultural production areas in the Ovens Valley, north-east Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 49(3): 213–220 [215]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26-Jun-2023 | MEMBRACOIDEA | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 10-May-2022 | CICADOMORPHA | 24-May-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 02-Jun-2021 | AUCHENORRHYNCHA | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 05-Dec-2019 | CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Murray Fletcher |
| 05-Dec-2019 | Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Murray Fletcher |
| 05-Dec-2019 | Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Murray Fletcher |
| 05-Dec-2019 | Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Murray Fletcher |
| 05-Dec-2019 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Dec-2019 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Dec-2019 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | ||
| 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED |