Species Batracomorphus tyndareus Knight, 1983
Compiler and date details
14 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Batracomorphus tyndareus Knight, W.J. 1983. The leafhopper genus Batracomorphus (Cicadellidae) in the eastern Oriental and Australian Regions. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 47(2): 27-210 [130].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH ♂ (coll.: viii.1948, L.J. Brass), Hann River Crossing, Queensland.
Introduction
This species from Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland, is based on six males. The precise localities within Queensland for the five paratypes were not provided by Knight (1983). This is one of a number of species which have small brown spots on the tegmina.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Forewings with small dark brown spots. Male pygophore processes slender, directed posteriorly with distal portion turned dorsoposteriorly, apex acute, a ventral spur-like projection subapically with ventral margin between it and apex acuminate. Styles with apical process of approximately uniform width to just distad of midlength then tapering to short acute dorsally hooked apex, a large ventrally directed thorn-like projection subapically on ventral margin. Aedeagus simple; shaft directed dorsally and curving slightly anterodorsally from midlength, tapering to apex; gonopore extending to just basad of midlength of shaft; anterior incision slightly longer than gonopore. Length 4.32–4.64 mm (Knight 1983).
ID Keys
Knight 1983: 37–50
Diagnosis References
Knight, W.J. 1983. The leafhopper genus Batracomorphus (Cicadellidae) in the eastern Oriental and Australian Regions. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 47(2): 27-210 [130–131]
History of changes
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |