Genus Tortor Kirkaldy, 1907

Tortor daulias Kirkaldy, type species of Tortor Kirkaldy.

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Tortor Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [42].

  Type species:

   Tortor daulias Kirkaldy, 1907 by monotypy.
• Austronirvana Evans, J.W. 1941. New Australian leafhoppers. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65(1): 36-41 [41].

  Type species:

   Austronirvana flavus Evans, 1941 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [153] (synonymy of Austronirvana)

Introduction

This small genus of distinctively coloured species is distributed mainly around the coastal fringe of mainland Australia from the NE corner of Western Australia to the Sydney Basin of New South Wales. Two species are recorded on Lord Howe Island and in Papua New Guinea while a single specimen of Tortor dorrigensis (Evans) is recorded from SE South Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Diagnosis

Probably allied to Dryadomorpha; the vertex is however not depressed and is more rounded anteriorly. Vertex flattish, slightly raised towards the middle from the lateral margins, about as long as wide across the small eyes, lateral margins converging anteriorly, apical margin roundly angulate. Frons concave, raised laterally, clypeus more or less fused, lora minute. In profile the head is thin, the lateral margins are flattened, narrowing apicalwards; ocelli very indistinct rudiments on this flattened part, at about half the length of the head. Pronotum transverse, about three-fourths the length of the vertex, longer than the scutelium. Tegmina elongate, subcoriaceous, veins very indistinct; the radial appears to be undivided almost till the apex of the tegmina, while the median is joined to cubital at least 5 or 6 times by short, transverse veins (Kirkaldy 1907).

ID Keys

Evans 1966: 151–152

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [151–152]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [42]

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