Species Terthron anemonias (Kirkaldy, 1907)

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• Delphax anemonias Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [159].

  Type data:

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

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bellis, G.A. & Donaldson, J.F. 2015. Reassessment of some of Kirkaldy's Australian species of Delphacini (Hemiptera: Delphacidae: Delphacinae). Austral Entomology 1-13 [First published on line 17 December 2015 with pagination 1–13. Print version published August 2016, vol 55(3), 247-260] [11].
• Delphax pylaon Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [160] (synonymy of Delphax pylaon).

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll. vii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bellis, G.A. & Donaldson, J.F. 2015. Reassessment of some of Kirkaldy's Australian species of Delphacini (Hemiptera: Delphacidae: Delphacinae). Austral Entomology 1-13 [First published on line 17 December 2015 with pagination 1–13. Print version published August 2016, vol 55(3), 247-260] [11].

Generic Combinations

• Terthron anemonias (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [56]

Introduction

This species is the only species of the genus recorded in Australia following the synonymy of Delphax pylaon.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Pine Creek (PCK), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Dark brownish black. head dorsally, pronotum and scutellum with a broad, median, ivory-white stripe. Commissure and frontal clypeal keels narrowly, lateral and posterior margins of the ventral part of the pronotum, tegulae, etc, white. First segment of the antennae blackish brown, second dark fuscous. Lateral keels of pronotum and scutellum narrowly obscurely ferruginous. Tegmina hyaline, veins pale fuscous except the very pale subcosta, outer fork of radial, etc. Femora more or less dark fuscous, tibiae and tarsi testaceous. Pleurites bordered pallidly, more or less. Head not extending anteriorly in front of eyes. Lateral keels of pronotum curvedly divergent. Spur with 19 spines. Male pygophor apically truncate in profile. Aedeagus horizontally projecting near the anal tube. Genital styles broadening towards the apex, which is truncate, inner margins irregularly sinuate. Length 3 1/3 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907)

Head with apical margin truncate, anterolateral carinae meeting at apex of vertex; basal compartment of vertex about as long as anterior compartment.Vertex, pronotum and mesonotum with a narrow white medial stripe. Fastigium rounded, not carinate. Frons about 2.2 times as long as width at widest point, widest at level of ocelli, with strong median carinae forking in basal third of frons, and with arms converging basad of fork. Antennae reaching apex of frons, antennal segment II about 2.4 times as long as wide and about 2.1 times as long as segment I. Apical rostrum segment about 4 times as long as wide. Claval suture present in macropters, Sc+R fork of macropterous tegmen basad to both Cu1 fork and to the junction of anal veins and sutural margin of tegmen. Male with one pair of processes present on anal segment and a single, small medioventral pygophore process; diaphragm symmetrical with sclerotised armature; aedeagus bifurcate (Bellis and Donaldson 2015).

ID Keys

Kirkaldy 1907: 150–151

Diagnosis References

Bellis, G.A. & Donaldson, J.F. 2015. Reassessment of some of Kirkaldy's Australian species of Delphacini (Hemiptera: Delphacidae: Delphacinae). Austral Entomology 1-13 [First published on line 17 December 2015 with pagination 1–13. Print version published August 2016, vol 55(3), 247-260] [11]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [159]

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