Species Harmalia ostorius (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Delphax ostorius Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [153].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Chloriona ostorius (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Metcalf, Z.P. 1943. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea. Part 3, Araeopidae (Delphacidae). Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 552 pp. [324]
• Harmalia ostorius (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Fennah, R.G. 1969. Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. Pacific Insects Monographs 21: 1-116 [39]

Introduction

This species was described from a series of specimens from Cairns in the wet tropics of North Queensland, the males being macropterous and the females brachypterous.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head dorsally longer than broad. vertex with a keel down the middle. Scutellum about twice as long as pronotum. Tibial spur with about 23 spines, hind tarsi with first segment longer than the other two. Long-winged male: dark fuscous or blackish brown, with pale keels, legs, etc. Tegmina dark fuscous, subhyaline, immaculate, with 7 apical cells, the third apical vein being also forked, veins very feebly granulate. Short-winged female: similar in appearance to [Delphax thyestes Kirkaldy], but the frons is long and narrow, slightly and gradually narrowing basally. Lateral keels of pronotum not curved under the eyes, but reaching posterior margin of pronotum. Tegmina immaculate, apically broadly rounded, reaching to about one-half of the entire length of the insect. First antennal segment about one-half of the length of the second. Male pygophor rounded at the end, the dorsal margin produced at each side, the produced part flattened and bent over at the end. The genital styles are compressed, the apices somewhat acute and bent. Length 2 3/4 (brach.), 4 (macr.) mm. (Kirkaldy 1907)

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [153–154]

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