Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

<I>Stenogiffardia parvula </I>(Kirkaldy), brachypterous adult female.

Stenogiffardia parvula (Kirkaldy), brachypterous adult female.

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Species Stenogiffardia parvula (Kirkaldy, 1906)


Compiler and date details

29 June 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher

Introduction

This long narrow leafhopper occurs as a fully brachypterous and as a macropterous form. The head is extended anteriorly as a narrow, usually ascending, process and the ovipositor extends beyond the apices of the pygofer. The species is known from a number of widely separated sites in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

When alive, metallic green, but fades after death to a shiny testaceous; tegmina and tergites more or less greyish metallic. Face pale sordid brownish, legs more or less marked with brown. Female: elongate, tapering anteriorly and posteriorly. Vertex about 3 times as long as wide between the eyes, anteriorly acuminate, somewhat ascendant. Frons 5-hedral, long-diamond .shaped, with a fifth side anteriorly, about as wide as clypeus, which is a trifle wider than the lorae: the latter do not quite reach the posterior margin of the genae. Tegmina very short truncate. Ultimate segment roundly produced, pygofers elongate, narrow, largely exposing the very long ovipositor. Length 6¼ mm, width about 1 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019 23-Oct-2013 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 30-Nov-2012 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 24-Oct-2012 MOVED
05-Dec-2019 16-May-2012 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 24-Jun-2011 MOVED
05-Dec-2019 24-Jun-2011 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)