Species Siphanta subgranulosa Kirkaldy, 1906

Siphanta subgranulosa Kirkaldy, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Siphanta subgranulosa 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:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: vii.1904), Cairns, Queensland
  Comment: Medler (1987) states that the lectotype designation by Fletcher (1985) was invalid because it was collected in viii.1904 when the original description gives only vii.1904. However, Fletcher (1985) gives vii.1904 as the collection date for the lectotype he designated.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Fletcher, M.J. 1985. Revision of the genus Siphanta Stål (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 110: 1-94 [39].
• Siphanta granulicollis 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] [misidentification of Siphanta granulicollis (Stål)].

  Type data:

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

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [100] (synonymy of Siphanta granulicollis sensu Kirkaldy)

Introduction

A member of the roseicincta group from the wet tropics of North Queensland. This species is very close to S. rubra and S. lynae but neither of these species appear to occur as far north as does S. subgranulosa.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: 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. subgranulosa. Pronotum and mesonotum longitudinally striped with green and orange, former with two green stripes formed by lines of granules, latter with three green stripes between lateral carinae. Frons lacking lateral carinae. Vertex shallow concave, not smooth. Male pygofer with long, slightly curved, slightly clavate process. Paramere rounded apically, with short thick process perpendicular to dorsal edge. Female third valvulae short, triangular with pilose area ventral. Second valvulae gap ovate, narrowly U-shaped, valvulae converging apically (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 [39]

History of changes