Species Francesca saleminophila Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Francesca saleminophila Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [424].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904; possible holotype by monotypy), Lucinda Point, Queensland.

Introduction

Larger (6 mm) than many other Australian Plectoderini, this species is dark brown but otherwise not well characterised in the literature. Examination of the original type material is required.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

Sordid testaceous, frons laterally with a row of blackish brown spots. Posteriorly three-fifths of the disk of scutellum dark brown, lateral parts of scutellum (exterior to keels) with a large thin blackish brown subtriangular ocellus. Tegmina hyaline, thickly spotted and smudged with brownish cinereous; veins on apical third white. Legs pallid, anterior and intermediate tibiae annulate with black. Abdomen brown, posterior margin of each segment narrowly pallid-sanguineous. Length: 6 mill. (Kirkaldy 1906)

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 [424]

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