Green Jassid Batracomorphus angustatus (Osborn, 1934)
Fauna Portal species: 859
Batracomophus angustatus male, lateral (HBI N4455-3; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2025)
Fauna Portal Image No. 11957Diagnosis
(after Knight 1983): This species differs from the majority of species in the genus by having the vertex flattened rather than continuously curved to the face. The pygophore processes are either straight or slightly sinuate, the two forms plus intermediates occurring together in Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Samoa and Tonga. Specimens from Fiji, Kermadecs, Philippines, Lesser Sunda Islands, Timor and Java show only the straight form. The configuration of the process depends to some extent on the aspect. Specimens from Sandakan Island, Timor and Java all have the shaft of the aedeagus distad of the lower limit of the gonopore slightly wider than normal whilst that from Sandakan Island also has the anterior incision slightly longer than the gonopore.
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Victoria
- Western Australia
Neighbouring Countries
- Indonesia
- New Zealand
- Papua New Guinea
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1983): The leafhopper genus Batracomorphus (Cicadellidae, lassinae) in the eastern Oriental and Australian regions. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History (Entomology). 27 - 210