Species Tortor daulias Kirkaldy, 1907

Tortor daulias Kirkaldy, adult female.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

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

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: ix-xii.1904), Bundaberg, Queensland.
• Austronirvana flavus Evans, J.W. 1941. New Australian leafhoppers. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65(1): 36-41 [41].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀ (coll.: A.M. Lea), Mt Tamborine, Queensland.

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 [154] (synonymy of A. flavus)

Introduction

This east coast species is evenly bright yellow in colour, usually with an orange median stripe along the vertex. There are three small brown spots on the tegmen although specimens from Lord Howe Island lack these.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus sp. [MYRTACEAE]; Croton sp. [EUPHORBIACEAE]).

Diagnosis

Pale golden yellow. Eyes greyish. Length 9 mill. (Kirkaldy 1907).

General coloration yellow. Crown of head with a single median longitudinal orange stripe which sometimes extends onto the pronotum. On face of head, maxillary plates projecting slightly beyond the anterior margin of the anteclypeus. Frontoclypeus flat almost as far as the antennae on each side. Tegmen yellow with three small brown spots, one at the apex of the claval suture. The others, which are more distally placed, close to the costal and hind margin respectively. Several secondary crossveins sometimes present between M and Cu1. Brown spots are absent on specimens from Lord Howe Island. Length ♀ 8.4–10 mm (Evans 1966).

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [154]

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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