Species Eocenchrea hiva (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lamenia hiva Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [404].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM sex unknown (coll.: ix-xii.1904), Bundaberg, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, on grass), Kuranda, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Eocenchrea hiva (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [37]

Introduction

Kirkaldy (1906) indicated that the specimen from Bundaberg was the "type". This was unusual for Kirkaldy since he rarely indicated primary type status, most of his species being represented by a series of syntypes except where he indicated that a holotype existed by monotypy. Muir (1924), in redescribing the species, states that it was described from a single female. As he had a male and a female from Brisbane, he is presumably referring to Kirkaldy's original material as being a single female. Kirkaldy (1906), however, gave multiple locations for his specimens. Muir's comment may indicate that the holotype is a female.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

Allied to the preceding [Cedusa kulia (Kirkaldy)] but the vertex is wider, as wide as or wider than an eye; the frons wider and shorter, angulate laterally just posterior to apical margin, strongly carinate medianly. Pronotum lutescent. Length 5.5 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906)
The male is similar in structure and colour. Lateral margins of pygofer subangularly produced, ventral margin straight; anal segment small, anus near apex which is rounded; genital styles wide, flat, outer margin slightly concave in outline, inner margin slightly convex, apex but slightly narrower than base, subtruncate (Muir 1924).

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 [404]

Muir, F. 1924. On some new and little-known Australian Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1): 29-36 [29]

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