Species Sophonia doddi (Evans, 1966)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudonirvana doddi Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [155].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♀ (coll.: v.1957, R. Metcalfe), Brisbane, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Sophonia doddi (Evans, 1966) [Day & Fletcher (1994) credited Evans (1977) as the first to use this combination but Evans (1977) simply stated that Pseudonirvana Baker was a synonym of Sophona Walker, apparently unaware that this synonymy had already been proposed by China (1924). The first use of the combination Sophona doddi (Evans) was by Day & Fletcher (1994)]. —
  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1149]

 

Introduction

This beautifully marked little black leafhopper is found along the coastal parts of Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face and crown of head shining black except laterally where they are yellowish brown. Pronotum and scutellum shining black. Tegmen irregularly rounded apically, proximally opaque black; apically hyaline brown. Between these two zones a hyaline yellow area against the costal margin, followed distally by three brown stripes lying along the branches of R. Three separate hyaline pale areas; also a triangular dull white area against the posterior claval margin. Length ♀ 5.2 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [155]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		30-Sep-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)