Species Batracomorphus pelamys (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurinoscopus pelamys Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [349].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales
  Comment: Knight (1983) referred to a "holotype" but no holotype exists. This may constitute a lectotype designation by default.
• Batracomorphus pelamys Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [349] [nomen dubium].

 

Generic Combinations

• Batrachomorphus pelamys (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [205]

 

Introduction

There are specimens identified as this species in the J.W. Evans collection from Southeast Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory but, since the identity of the species is in doubt, the identifications of these other specimens as this species cannot be accepted. Kirkaldy based the species on an unknown number of female specimens from Sydney.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

The largest of the Australian species. Similar to B. pelias but larger and more elongate. Testaceous. Frons fairly convex, vertex dorsally short, wide, little wider medianly than at the side. Female: last segment with a short acute lateral spine. Length: 6 1/8–6 7/8 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [349]

 

General 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 [206] (nomen dubium)

 

History of changes

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