Species Thalattoscopus krusei (Schmidt, 1930)
- Marquardtella krusei Schmidt, E. 1930. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Zikaden des Indoaustralischen Faunengebietes. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 47: 112-126 [124].
Type data:
Lectotype ZMPA ♂ (coll.: 22.vii.-6.viii.1928, Jeswiet), Fly River, Papua New Guinea.Subsequent designation references:
Knight, W.J. & Webb, M.D. 1986. The pacific Iassine cicadellid genus Thalattoscopus (Homoptera). Journal of Natural History 20: 1051-1082 [1072]. - Batrachomorphus croceus Evans, J.W. 1972. Some leafhoppers from New Guinea, Australia and Thailand belonging to the subfamily Jassinae and a new genus from New Guinea referred to a new subfamily, the Acostemminae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 14(4): 647-662 [653].
Type data:
Holotype BPBM 9771 ♂ (coll.: 27.v.1958, W.W. Brandt), Finisterre Range, Saidor-Sibog Village, Papua New Guinea.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Knight, W.J. & Webb, M.D. 1986. The pacific Iassine cicadellid genus Thalattoscopus (Homoptera). Journal of Natural History 20: 1051-1082 [1072] (synonymy of B. croceus)
Generic Combinations
- Thalattoscopus krusei (Schmidt, 1930). —
Knight, W.J. & Webb, M.D. 1986. The pacific Iassine cicadellid genus Thalattoscopus (Homoptera). Journal of Natural History 20: 1051-1082 [1072]
Introduction
This species, which is unknown to the compiler, is found in far northern Queensland and New Guinea.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Irian Jaya.
IBRA
Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Yellow to yellowish brown, variably tinged with green dorsally, inner margin of forewing often tinged with brown [possibly entirely green in life]. Head approximately equal in width to pronotum. Male genitalia with pygophore lobes long, dorsal internal ledge absent. Subgenital plates elongate, lateral margin with long fine setae and short spine-like setae, ventral setae absent. Style variable; apical process elongate, ventral margin dentate over basal half, rarely dentate distally, with strong subapical tooth; apex upturned, acute. Aedeagus narrowly U-shaped in lateral aspect, shaft elongate, curved dorsally with a pair of small lateral flanges apically, gonopore apical on posterior margin, short; anterior incision absent (Knight & Webb 1986).
ID Keys
Knight & Webb 1986: 1057–1058
Diagnosis References
Knight, W.J. & Webb, M.D. 1986. The pacific Iassine cicadellid genus Thalattoscopus (Homoptera). Journal of Natural History 20: 1051-1082 [1072]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 02-Dec-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |