Species Siphanta lucindae Kirkaldy, 1906

Siphanta lucindae Kirkaldy, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Siphanta lucindae Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [455].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: vii.1904; holotype by monotypy), Lucinda Point, Queensland.

Introduction

S. lucindae is a delicately formed species which resembles S. granulata Kirkaldy. Both species have narrow tegmina, prominent eyes and the first marginal cell beyond the apex of the clavus usually completely red or red-brown. Both species were placed in the roseicincta group by Fletcher (1985). S. lucindae is widespread along the northern coastline of Australia from Broome in Western Australia to SE Queensland. It has also been recorded in Papua New Guinea.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

roseicincta Group. Head short, vertex no more than ½ as long as wide at base. Apical margin of vertex roundly or angularly produced slightly. Frons wider than long or as wide as long with strong median longitudinal carina but lateral carinae obsolete or indicated at very apex only. Tegmen narrow with apical angle rounded and sutural angle rounded or obtusely angulate, never produced. M1+2 branched at about middle of tegmen, well before apex of clavus. Green, fading to yellow or orange in dried specimens. Frons dark brown in most species. Apex of head, carinae of frons, outer claval vein, fore- and mid-tibiae and all tarsi usually marked with red. Tegminal granules black at tip. Margin of tegmen except base of costal margin and claval margin to apex of clavus marked with red.
S. lucindae. Costal margin pallid from base to apex of costal cell. First marginal cell beyond apex of clavus completely red or red-brown. Eyes prominent. Male pygofer with long narrow pointed process reaching to 2/3 length of paramere. Paramere narrow with large hooked process near apex. Female third valvulae apically broad, triangular with pilose area ventral. Second valvulae gap narrow U-shaped, deeper than wide. Apices of second valvulae sometimes slightly convergent (Fletcher 1985).

ID Keys

Fletcher 1985: 4–6
Fletcher, M.J. (2005). Illustrated Key to the species of the genus Siphanta Stål (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae)
http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/flatid/siphanta/siph00.htm

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 1985. Revision of the genus Siphanta Stål (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 110: 1-94 [33–34]

General References

Fletcher, M.J. 1985. Revision of the genus Siphanta Stål (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 110: 1-94 [33–34]

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