Species Trypetimorpha wilsoni Huang & Bourgoin, 1993

Trypetimorpha wilsoni Huang & Bourgoin, brachypterous adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Trypetimorpha wilsoni Huang & Bourgoin, macropterous adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Trypetimorpha wilsoni Huang, J. & Bourgoin, T. 1993. The planthopper genus Trypetimorpha: systematics and phylogenetic relationships (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Tropiduchidae). Journal of Natural History 27: 609-629 [626].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: 13.ii.1961, L. & M. Gressitt, rainforest), Mt Glorious, SE Queensland.

Introduction

This species is apparently an Australian endemic distributed in SE Queensland and NE New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

A comprehensive description was provided by Huang & Bourgoin (1993). The species can be differentiated from the only other species recorded in Australia, T. aschei Huang & Bourgoin, by characters 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 [626]

General References

Orosz, A. 2012. A new Trypetimorpha species from Australia and new data to the knowledge of the genus (Homoptera, Archaeorhyncha: Tropiduchidae). Folia Entomologica Hungarica Rovartani Közlemények 73: 15-27 [21, Figs 5, 9–10, 13–14, 20, 22 and 24–25]

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