Species Neovulturnus vanduzeei (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vulturnus vanduzeei Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [83].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This beautifully marked species is found in the Sydney region of New South Wales. Evans (1947) gave its distribution as Queensland but this appears to have been in error as the type series was from Sydney.

 

Generic Combinations

• Neovulturnus vanduzeei (Kirkaldy, 1907). — Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [151].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Allied to V vulturnus but the margin of the head is not acute anteriorly, and the anterior margin immediately in front of the eyes is not (or not noticeably) divergent, before curving upwards and inwards. Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum ivory white, more or less tinged with greenish, the vertex with a few scattered brownish specks; pronotum obscurely mottled with greenish brown, sometimes with a whitening medio-transversely. Face black except for a few red brown marks and the ivory-white basal margin. Sterna and pleura black (except for the more or less pale exterior half of propleura). Tegmina ivory white tinged with green, veins and incomplete veins brownish. Fore legs pale, others mostly blackish; bristles pale. Sternites and genital segment pale or dark varyingly. Male: pygophors a little more than twice as long as last segment which is bisinuate. Length 4-4½ mm. The nymphs are not specially remarkable (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 [83–84]