Species Stirellus fatigandus (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phrynomorphus fatigandus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [327].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: viii.1904, Koebele), Cairns, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1993. Lectotype designations and new synonymies for G. W. Kirkaldy's Australian Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) held in the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. General and Applied Entomology 25: 35-59 [42].
• Phrynophyes phrynophyes Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [327].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: ix-xii.1904, Koebele), Bundaberg, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1993. Lectotype designations and new synonymies for G. W. Kirkaldy's Australian Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) held in the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. General and Applied Entomology 25: 35-59 [49].
• Phrynophyes kirkaldyi Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [15].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: J.W. Evans), Snug, Tasmania.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1993. Lectotype designations and new synonymies for G. W. Kirkaldy's Australian Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) held in the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. General and Applied Entomology 25: 35-59 [55] (synonymy of P. phrynophyes and P. kirkaldyi)

 

Generic Combinations

• Stirellus fatigandus (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1993. Lectotype designations and new synonymies for G. W. Kirkaldy's Australian Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) held in the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. General and Applied Entomology 25: 35-59 [55]
• Campbellinella fatigandus (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [233]

 

Introduction

This common and widespread grass-feeding leafhopper is brilliant bright green in life but fades to pale brown when pinned. The tegmina can be fully macropterous, brachypterous or semibrachypterous. The species is distributed in all parts of Australia except South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory although collecting in these areas will probably eventually find it there too.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Formosa.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Very similar specifically to Phrynophyes indignus but smaller and the frons immaculate, legs pallid. Vertex between the eyes about two-thirds of length of exterolateral margin of an eye. Male: Propleura with black disk: lateral margins of sternites narrowly blackish: tergites pale orange-brown. Tegmina reaching beyond apex of abdomen. Female: 7th sternite slightly emarginate. pygofers 4-5 times as long as seventh sternite. ovipositor one-third longer than pygofers, extending beyond apex of tegmina. Length, male 4 7/8; female 5 1/8 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [327]

 

History of changes

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