Species Cotylana acutipennis (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Cotylana acutipennis (Kirkaldy), male syntype, Cairns, Queensland.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Cotylana acutipennis (Kirkaldy), adult male.

© Copyright D.C.F. Rentz, Kuranda, Queensland.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lollius acutipennis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [439].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: iii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vi.1904, arboreal), Nelson (=Gordonvale), Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Cotylana acutipennis (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Fennah, R.G 1954. The higher classification of the family Issidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 105: 455-474 [463]

Introduction

This species is dark greenish in life. It has been recorded from Cairns, Kuranda and Gordonvale in the wet tropics of North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: sap-feeder.

Diagnosis

Closely allied to [C. angustifrons], but smaller, and the upper apical angle of tegmina distinctly acute and more prominent; the anterior carina of vertex truncate, and more pronounced (it is feeble and excavately angulate in [C. angustifrons]). The veins are not, or very slightly, marked with sanguineous. Length: 5 1/3 mill., 3 7/8 mill. (Kirkaldy 1906).

The shape of the sutural angle of the tegmen is the easiest way of telling the two species apart. In this species it is acute but in C. angustrifrons it is slightly obtuse.

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [439]

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