Species Trocnada dorsigera Walker, 1858

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trocnada dorsigera Walker, F. 1858. Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq. London : British Museum pp. 1-117. [104].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown, Sydney, New South Wales.
• Abelterus incarnatus Stål, C. 1865. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 22: 145-165 [158].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: A. Dohrn), 'Australia borealis'.
• Trocnada gigantea Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [78].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀, Karoonda, South Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [100] (synonymy of A. incarnatus)
• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [208] (synonymy of T. gigantea)

 

Introduction

This is a common and widespread species frequently collected at lights. It is often bright pinkish red but, particularly in males, may have brown speckling.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Rufa, subtus albida; abdomen vitta tenui dorsali nigra; pedes rufi; femoribus basi albidis; alae anticae margine postico vitreo subcinereo; posticae albido-vitreae. Red, whitish beneath. Abdomen somewhat paler, with a slight black dorsal stripe which does not extend to the tip. Legs red; femora whitish towards the base. Fore wings red, vitreous and slightly grayish along the hind border. Hind wings whitish vitreous; veins black, pale red in front. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 7 lines (Walker 1858).

Dai & Dietrich (2012) provide a description and illustdrations of the male genitalia.

 

ID Keys

Dai & Dietrich 2012: 55–56

 

Diagnosis References

Dai, W. and Dietrich, C.H. 2012. Review of the Australian leafhopper genus Trocnada with notes on related genera (Hemiptera:Cicadellidae: Iassinae). Zootaxa 3209: 53–66 [56]

Walker, F. 1858. Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq. London : British Museum pp. 1-117. [104]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	Iassinae Amyot & Serville, 1843	08-Nov-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)