Species Toropsis balli (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oncopsis balli Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [38].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀ (coll.: ix-xii.1904, Koebele), Bundaberg,Qld
  Comment: Hamilton (1980: 877) has attempted to designate a lectotype for this species but ICZN Article 74.3 expressly disallows lectotype designations that are not individual.

 

Generic Combinations

• Toropsis balli (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [886]
• Macropsis balli (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [165]

 

Introduction

This species is reasonably widespread in eastern mainland Australia from Bundaberg in Queensland to the southeastern highlands of Victoria. Kirkaldy gave the following etymology: "I have great pleasure in naming the last two species after Professors Osborn and Ball ,whose work, conjointly or separate, on the Homoptera, especially the genera Deltocephalus, Agallia, &c, forms a model for future research."

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Bright yellow, closely punctured with brown on head and pronotum. There is a laevigate horse-shoe mark on the face near the clypeus, broken at the base, and there are 2 smooth pits nearer the base of the face. There is also a small smooth area on the pronotum on each side anteriorly, and the striation is fine and somewhat reticulate. The scutellum is punctured closely only on the disk. Apical margins of clypeus and genae, marks on legs, sterna, &c., blackish. Tegmina cinereous hyaline, a blackish smudge near the base, veins strong, yellowish brown, sometimes blackened. The head is not visible dorsally, except close to the prominent eyes, nor is the anterior margin of the pronotum visible. Length 5 mml. (Kirkaldy 1907).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [38]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		19-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)