Species Hasta hastata Kirkaldy, 1906

Hasta hastata Kirkaldy, adult

© Copyright David Gray, NSW Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit, Orange.

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• Hasta hastata Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [394].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, on grass), Cairns, Queensland.

Introduction

This is the common dictyopharid in eastern Australa. Its bright green colour makes it difficult to see in grass but it can be readily swept. A revision of the Australian Dictyopharidae is needed to determine if the populations of H. hastata in the North Kimberley region of Western Australia and in Tasmania are the same species as the form found along the eastern seaboard of Queensland and New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Might be grass feeder.

Diagnosis

Immaculate grass-green, keels of scutellum tinged with blue. Tegmina and wings hyaline, colorless, veins green. Brachial vein forked nearer to the base than the cubital, which is forked nearer to the base than the radial. Subcosta apically very narrowly brownish. Length: 18–19 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906)

ID Keys

Kirkaldy (1906: 394); Melichar (1912: 109)

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 [394]

Melichar, L. 1912. Monographie der Dictyophorinen. Abhandlungen der K.K. Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 7(1): 1-221 [109]

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