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DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.21(4).2003.353-357 Records of the Western Australian MlIsellm 21: 353-357 (2003). New records for Hemiptera species in Western Australia Melinda L. Moirl, Jonathan D. Majer1 and Murray J. Fletcher 1 Department of Environmental Biology, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U 1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia. Email: [email protected] 2 NSW Agriculture, Orange, New South Wales 2800, Australia Abstract - Four genera and nine species of Hemiptera from other states and territories have recently been recorded in Western Australia for the first time. Material has originated mainly from Jarrahdale, approximately 50 kms SE of Perth. Newly recorded species include one species of Cercopidae, five of Cicadellidae, one of Ricaniidae, one of Scutelleridae and one of Pentatomidae. INTRODUCTION Curtin University, and A. Postle's Argyle Diamond The Hemiptera of Western Australia are poorly Mines specimens (lodged in the WA Museum and known compared to Eastern Australia, possibly Department of Environmental Biology). The owing to the State's isolation from the main methods utilised by Postle (1984) were light traps, population centres of Australia, and the lack of local sweeps, malaise traps and pitfall traps. Voucher hemipteran taxonomists in the state. Even species specimens of adults collected by the first author representing potential threat to agriculture and/or have been lodged with the Western Australian forestry appear to have been overlooked, with the Museum and, in some cases, the Department of exception of introduced aphids. A few authors have Agriculture, WA. attempted to catalogue Hemiptera within certain Abbreviations used: ASCU, Agricultural Scientific regions of WA (Abbott 1995; Cassis and Gross 1995, Collections Unit, NSW Agriculture, Orange; NSW, 2002; Heterick et al. 2001), although such catalogues New South Wales; Qld, Queensland; Vic, Victoria; rely on rather infrequent ground surveys of taxa. SA, South Australia; NT, Northern Territory; Tas, The first author has been investigating the Tasmania; WA, Western Australia; WAM, Western understorey-associated Hemiptera of the northern Australian Museum, Perth; WADA, Entomological jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata Sm.) forest at collection, Department of Agriculture Western Jarrahdale, WA. New records of Hemiptera for WA, Australia, Perth. revealed by this study, are presented here. NEW RECORDS METHODS Suborder Auchenorrhyncha Specimens were collected by beating and suction sampling (see Smith 1999) at Jarrahdale, Family Cercopidae approximately 50 km SE of Perth in WA, at 32°14'5 Petyllis deprivata (Walker, 1858) 116°05'E. Understorey plant species from the families Zamiaceae (Macrozamia), Proteaceae Material examined: 40, Jarrahdale jarrah forest (Adenanthos and Hakea), Fabaceae (Bossiaea and (32°14'5 116°0S'E), November 2000, M. Moir, on Mirbelia), Mimosaceae (Acacia), Dasypogonaceae FABACEAE: Bossiaea aquifolium (Benth.) (suction (Lomandra), Myrtaceae (Melaleuca), Rhamnaceae sampling); DASYPOGONACEAE: Lomandra sonderi (Trymalium), Epacridaceae (Leucopogon) and (Muell.) (suction sampling); ZAMIACEAE: Poaceae (Ehrharta) were sampled. The two sampling Macrozamia riedlei (Gaudich.) (suction sampling); methods were used on numerous understorey plant PROTEACEAE: Adenanthos barbiger (Lindl.) (suction species of the jarrah forest, over a period of 20 sampling) (WAM); I?, Dog Pool, Shannon National months, resulting in excess of 26 000 hemipteran Park (34°46'5 116°22'E), 22-25 March 1993, MS specimens, representing at least 380 species. At least Harvey and J.M. Waldock (WAM 33561); 1 nine of these represented records that were new to (genitalia missing), Glen Forest, Perth, Darling WA. Other collections examined for records of these Range, November 1975, S.M. Postmus (WAM newly recorded species, were those of the Western 33560); 1 (genitalia missing), Mt Clarence, Albany, Australian Museum, Department of Agriculture 10 January 1941, P.N.F. (WADA 16200); 10, WA, Department of Environmental Biology at Denmark, 8 December 1972, P.N. Forte (WADA 354 M. L. Moir, J. D. Majer, M. J. Fletcher 16201); 10 2 C(, Mandurah, 27.xi.1969, K.T. Richards (32°14'S 116°05'E), May-August 2001, M. Moir, on (WADA 16196, 16197 and 16198); 1 C(, Banister, 15 FABACEAE: B. aquifolium (suction sampling and January 1971, K.T. Richards (WADA 16202); 1 C(, beating), M. dilatata (suction sampling and beating); Northam, 18 November 1982, K.T. Richards MYRTACEAE: Melaleuca sp. (beating); (WADA 16203); 1 C(, Yanchep, March1973, S.J. PROTEACEAE: H. lissocarpha (beating); Curry (WADA 16202), light trap. RHAMNACEAE: Trymalium ledifolium (Fenzl, 1837) Note: This is the first record of this genus in WA. (beating) (10 11 « in WADA, 11 « in WAM); 10, Petyllis deprivata has been recorded from Qld, NSW Beedelup National Park, karri forest, Pemberton, and Vic by Fletcher and Lariviere (2001), and the ii.2003, M. Moir and K.E.C. Brennan, on B. material examined demonstrates that it is also aquifolium (beating) (WAM). distributed between Perth and Albany in WA. Plant Note: This material represents the first record of species on which it has been collected in WA the genus Austrolopa from WA. Austrolopa currently indicate that this cercopid may have a wide host includes two described species, A. brunensis Evans range, although it was collected mainly in jarrah (1937) and A. victoriensis Evans (1939). The former is forest. These host plants possibly include members widespread in eastern Australia and has also been of the Fabaceae, Zamiaceae, Proteaceae and recorded in SA and Tas (Day and Fletcher 1994). The Dasypogonaceae (Lomandra). The specimens latter is known only from the female type specimen, collected to date indicate that P. deprivata is active collected from Warburton, Vic. The two species were during late spring to autumn in WA. differentiated by Evans (1966) by the length of the vertex, but this character is somewhat variable and further specimens of A. victoriensis from SE Australia, Family Ricaniidae particularly males, are needed to support the Epithalamium aziola (Kirkaldy, 1906) recognition of A. victoriensis as a valid species. Austrolopa brunensis is known in several colour forms, Material examined: 1 C(, Jarrahdale rehabilitated and in both macropterous and brachypterous forms. mine pit (32°14'S 116°05'E), April 2000, M. Moir, No specimens collected from WA display suction sampling; 13 C( 40, Jarrahdale rehabilitated brachyptery. Austrolopa adults and nymphs were mine pit and surrounding jarrah forest (32°14'S common in the southwest on B. aquifolium and M. 116°05'E), ii.2001, M. Moir, on FABACEAE: B. dilatata, although adults were occasionally collected aquifolium (suction sampling), Mirbelia dilatata on other plant species. Western Australian host plant (R.Br.) (suction sampling and beating); records conform to eastern state hosts of Bossiaea and PROTEACEAE: Hakea lissocarpha (R.Br.) (suction other Fabaceae species for A. brunensis (Day and sampling); MIMOSACEAE: Acacia pulchella (R.Br.) Fletcher 1994; Fletcher and Lariviere 2001). It appears (beating), Acacia drummondii (Lindl.) (beating), that the Austrolopa species recorded in WA is Acacia trigonophylla (Meisn.) (beating) (7c( 20 in distributed widely on B. aquifolium, as collections on each of WAM and WADA). this host plant were recorded at sites over 200km Note: This material represents the first record of apart Oarrahdale to Pemberton). However, a study the genus from WA. A small and attractive species of of the genus Austrolopa from all parts of Australia is ricaniid planthopper, this species was described in a required to determine whether more than one species monotypic genus by Kirkaldy (1906) from Sydney, can be recognised, or whether the genus contains but few further records exist for the species. Fletcher only a highly variable A. brunensis. and Lariviere (2001) provide an illustration of the species based on specimens collected in 1977 by M.J. Fletcher at Mount White, North of Sydney. There are Subfamily Typhlocybinae also two specimens in ASCU collected at Tahmoor, NSW, by C.E. Chadwick in 1966. In the northern Tribe Erythroneurini jarrah forest of WA, the species appears to be active during late summer to early autumn. It is likely that Zygina zealandica (Myers, 1923) M. and certain species are hosts. dilatata Acacia Material examined: 140 15 «, Jarrahdale rehabilitated mine pit and surrounding jarrah forest Family Cicadellidae (32°14'S 116°05'E), April 2000 - November 2001, M. Moir, on FABACEAE: B. aquifolium (chemical Subfamily Ulopinae knockdown), M. dilatata (suction sampling); PROTEACEAE: H. lissocarpha (suction sampling); Tribe Ulopini MIMOSACEAE: A. pulchella (suction sampling); Austrolopa sp. (Evans, 1937) RHAMNACEAE: T. ledifolium (beating) (70 8 « in WAM, 70 7« in WADA); 70 4«, Como, Perth, Material examined: 10 22 C(, Jarrahdale October 2002, M. Moir, POACEAE: Ehrharta rehabilitated mine pit and surrounding jarrah forest longifIora (Srn.) (hand collection) (WAM). New hemipteran records 355 Note: This species is common and widespread Note: A common species in eastern Australia and in eastern Australia and New Zealand on a very an adventive in New Zealand (Evans 1966). The wide range of host plants (Knight 1976). Its wide distribution within WA indicates a wide presence in WA on many plant species is not natural range, rather than this being a more recent surprising and it is presumably also present in introduction. Host plant information is not available SA, although the species has
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