Species Stirellus mitis (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anemochrea mitis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [330].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: ii.1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales.

  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 [46].

 

Generic Combinations

• Stirellus mitis (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1200]

 

Introduction

This small brown species with annular rings around the conically produced head is known from the type series collected in three locations within the Sydney basin of New South Wales. The type series comprises 2 males, 3 females, one adult missing the abdomen and 8 nymphs. They all bear a printed Sydney label but other localities are indicated by the addition of a red letter to the label. One female and 1 nymph have a red "M" signifying Mittagong and one male has a red "P" signifying Parramatta. The details of Kirkaldy's labelling system have been explained by Medler (1987).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Dark brownish testaceous. Vertex blackish brown with two narrow transverse pallid lines, one midway between apex and apical margin of eyes and the other a little posterior to the apical margin of eyes. Face greyish, frons laterally with 8 or 9 somewhat remotely placed brownish transverse lines. Pleura and most of sternites (except genitalia) blackish. Tegmina with whitish veins, apical cells brownish-black posteriorly. Legs more or less pale brownish. Basal half of abdomen above, and a median line on rest of tergites, black. Var: Vertex somewhat pale; with apex, a bar between or above eyes, and a broken bar near base, blackish-brown. The nymphs are not remarkable. Length 3-4½ 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 [330]

 

General References

Medler, J.T. 1987. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XI. Taxonomic notes on Kirkaldy Types in the Bishop Museum, with illustrations of the genitalia of male lectotypes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 27: 115-125

 

History of changes

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