Species Trypetimorpha aschei Huang & Bourgoin, 1993

Trypetimorpha aschei Huang & Bourgoin, macropterous male.

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• Trypetimorpha aschei Huang, J. & Bourgoin, T. 1993. The planthopper genus Trypetimorpha: systematics and phylogenetic relationships (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Tropiduchidae). Journal of Natural History 27: 609-629 [615].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: 26-28.x.1960, J.L. Gressitt), Oriomo Govt. Sta., Western District, Papua New Guinea.

Introduction

This species was originally described from New Guinea but a single macropterouis male specimen in ASCU was collected near Katherine in the Northern Territory in 1998 to established its presence in Australia. It is also possible that a record of "Trichoduchus biermani" (= Trypetimorpha biermani (Dammerman)) reported by Lallemand & Synave (1953: 254) from the Northern Territory is of this species. Huang & Bourgoin (1993) demonstrated that T. biermani is limited to the Oriental region.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Daly Basin (DAB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

A comprehensive description was provided by Huang & Bourgoin (1993). It can be differentiated from T. wilsoni by features of the male and female genitalia and probably also by distributional differences.

ID Keys

Huang & Bourgoin 1993: 614

Diagnosis References

Huang, J. & Bourgoin, T. 1993. The planthopper genus Trypetimorpha: systematics and phylogenetic relationships (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Tropiduchidae). Journal of Natural History 27: 609-629 [615]

General References

Huang, J. & Bourgoin, T. 1993. The planthopper genus Trypetimorpha: systematics and phylogenetic relationships (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Tropiduchidae). Journal of Natural History 27: 609-629 [618]

Lallemand, V. & Synave, H. 1953. Homoptères de Sumba et Flores. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 64(1): 229-254 [254]

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