Species Gelastopsis insignis Kirkaldy, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gelastopsis insignis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [448].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vi.1904), Brisbane, Queensland.
• Yarrana glaucops Schmidt, E. 1908. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Eurybrachinen. (Hemiptera-Homoptera). Zoologischer Anzeiger 33: 241-247 [245].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMPA ♂, Queensland.
  Paralectotype(s) ZMPA ♂, Queensland; ZMPA ♀, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Constant, J. 2005. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (IV). The Australian genus Gelastopsis Kirkaldy, 1906 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 75: 57-69 [59].

 

Introduction

This species has been recorded on a range of wattles, Acacia (Fabaceae), along the Great Dividing Range of eastern Australia from the wet tropics of North Queensland to Mt Kaputar in northern New South Wales. The distribution map given by Constant (2005) includes records from the New South Wales southern slopes and north coast but the material examined does not include specimens from these regions. The southern distribution of the species therefore needs to be confirmed. Constant (2005) provides some notes on the biology of the species, primarily originating from observations by the Chew family of Brisbane. This includes the suggestion that the colouration of the frons may be mimicry of small jumping spiders (Family Salticidae).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Constant, J. 2005. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (IV). The Australian genus Gelastopsis Kirkaldy, 1906 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 75: 57-69 [59]

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Immediately recognised by the hind wings with anal area well developed and black zone of frons that is not separated into two patches. (Constant 2005)

 

ID Keys

Constant 2005: 66

 

Diagnosis References

Constant, J. 2005. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (IV). The Australian genus Gelastopsis Kirkaldy, 1906 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 75: 57-69 [61]