Species Euryphantia tristis (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Euryphantia tristis (Kirkaldy)

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thanatochlamys tristis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [101].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: vii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.
• Euphanta obscura Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [20].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♂ (holotype by monotypy), Yarrabah, N Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Medler, J.T. 1986. The types of Flatidae (Homoptera) in the Stockholm Museum described by Stål, Melichar, Jacobi and Walker. Entomologica Scandinavica 17: 323-337 [331] (synonymy of Euphanta obscura Jacobi)

Generic Combinations

• Euryphantia tristis (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Fletcher, M.J. 1980. Review of the Australian genera Euryphantia Kirkaldy and Thanatochlamys Kirkaldy (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea, Flatidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 7(2): 21-26 [24]

Introduction

Fletcher (1980) differentiated this species from the only other described species of Euryphantia using features of the male genitaila as well as distribution. E. cinerascens has been recorded as far north as Palm Island, which is slightly south of 18ºS latitude, while E. tristis has only been recorded in far North Queensland from the wet tropics northwards, including Torres Strait islands, as well as from Papua New Guinea. Medler (1986) synonymised Euphanta obscura Jacobi, which is based on a holotype male lacking its abdomen, with E. tristis rather than E. cinerascens on the basis of this distributional difference.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Pygofer, anal segment and subgenital plates similar to those of E. cinerascens. Aedeagus similar to that of E. cinerascens except for the following points: second pair of processes, from apex of dorsal edge, long, reaching to level of third pair which curve antero-dorsally rather than dorsally; first pair slightly sinuate towards apex; fourth pair lacking clubbed posterior projection from near base (Fletcher 1980).

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 1980. Review of the Australian genera Euryphantia Kirkaldy and Thanatochlamys Kirkaldy (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea, Flatidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 7(2): 21-26 [26]

General References

Fletcher, M.J. 1980. Review of the Australian genera Euryphantia Kirkaldy and Thanatochlamys Kirkaldy (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea, Flatidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 7(2): 21-26 [21]

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