Species Sogatella kolophon (Kirkaldy, 1907)

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• Delphax kolophon Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [157].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904), Redlynch, Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland
  Comment: type series includes males and females.
• Opiconsiva insularis Distant, W.L. 1917. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A. Vol. VI, No vii — Rhynchota, Part II: Suborder Homoptera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 17: 273-322 [303].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Silhouette, Seychelles.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Fennah, R.G. 1963. The delphacid species-complex known as Sogata furcifera (Horvath) (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of Entomological Research 54(1): 45-79 [60].
• Opiconsiva balteata Distant, W.L. 1917. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A. Vol. VI, No vii — Rhynchota, Part II: Suborder Homoptera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 17: 273-322 [302].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Seychelle Islands.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Fennah, R.G. 1963. The delphacid species-complex known as Sogata furcifera (Horvath) (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of Entomological Research 54(1): 45-79 [64].
• Opiconsiva derelicta Distant, W.L. 1917. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A. Vol. VI, No vii — Rhynchota, Part II: Suborder Homoptera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 17: 273-322 [303].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Seychelles.
• Delphacodes elegantissima Ishihara, T. 1952. Some species of the Delphacidae new or unrecorded from Shikoku, Japan (Hemiptera). Scientific Reports of the Matsuyama Agricultural College 8: 39-47 [45].

  Type data:

   Holotype EUMJ ♂, Shikoku, Japan.
• Sogata meridiana Beamer, R.H. 1952. One old and five new species of Delphacine Fulgorids (Homoptera : Fulgoridae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 25: 111-115 [111].

  Type data:

   Holotype SEMK ♂, Florida, USA.
• Sogatella kolophon atlantica Fennah, R.G. 1963. The delphacid species-complex known as Sogata furcifera (Horvath) (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of Entomological Research 54(1): 45-79 [58].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH B.M. 1936-406 ♂ (coll.: 10.iii.1936, H.F.D. Bartlett, beaten from Dicksonia arborescens), Taylor's Flat, St Helena.
• Sogatella nebris Fennah, R.G. 1963. The delphacid species-complex known as Sogata furcifera (Horvath) (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of Entomological Research 54(1): 45-79 [67].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 25-31.iii.1923, R.E. Turner), Port St John, Pondoland, South Africa.
• Sogatella chenhea Kuoh, C.L. 1977. Three new species of Sogatellana from China (Homoptera : Delphacidae). Acta Entomologica Sinica 20(4): 440-444 [440].

  Type data:

   Holotype AACC ♂, Kwangtung, China.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Asche, M. & Wilson, M.R. 1990. The delphacid genus Sogatella and related groups: a revision with special reference to rice-associated species (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Systematic Entomology 15: 1-42 [16] (synonymy of O. insularis, O. balteata, O. derelicta, D. elegantissima, S. meridiana, S. kolophon atlantica, S. nebris and S. chenhea)

 

Generic Combinations

• Sogatella kolophon (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Fennah, R.G. 1963. The delphacid species-complex known as Sogata furcifera (Horvath) (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of Entomological Research 54(1): 45-79 [58]

 

Introduction

Sogatella kolophon is a common delphacid along the eastern seaboard and neighbouring inland areas of Australia. Records in the Australian Plant Pest Database (APPD - http://www.planthealthaustralia.com.au/go/phau/capacity-and-capability/information-support-systems/appd) include a number of specimens from the Northern Territory although these could be misidentifications of S. furcifera. S. kolophon has been recorded on a number of different grass species and is a known vector of pangola stunt fijivirus and digitaria striate virus in Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Pacific Region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder, vector.

 

Diagnosis

S. kolophon can be separated from all other species of the genus by a combination of characters such as the coloration of head and wings (it is the only species with light genae in males), the shape of the parameres and the apically blunt aedeagus. Small and slender in general appearance. Light yellow to pale stramineous; males with yellow face and genae, in some specimens a small brown or red spot around or below the ocelli and a brown mark in the lower half of the frons; tegmina hyaline, in apical half with a grey or light brown suffusion of varying extent. Male genitalia: laterodorsal angels of the genital segment slightly produced, mostly bent mediad; outer apical angle of the parameres strongly produced, more or less continuously tapering to its apex, in some specimens slightly sinuate, not distinctly dilated in middle part; inner angle of parameres relatively short and stout; apical margin of parameres shallowly concave. Aedeagus comparatively short, sinuate, apically not acutely tapering, tip in most specimens blunt, left row with 15–22 teeth, right row with 5–8 teeth. (Asche & Wilson 1990)

 

ID Keys

Asche & Wilson 1990: 7

 

Diagnosis References

Asche, M. & Wilson, M.R. 1990. The delphacid genus Sogatella and related groups: a revision with special reference to rice-associated species (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Systematic Entomology 15: 1-42 [18]

 

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