Species Proterosydne arborea Kirkaldy, 1907

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• Proterosydne arborea Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [131].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: Koebele; by monotypy), Queensland.

Introduction

This species appears to be represented in collections only by the single female specimen from "Queensland" described in the original description and recognised as the holotype by monotypy. It was collected by Arthur Koebele who collected in the Cairns region of North Queensland and the Brisbane area of SE Queensland between June 1904 and March 1905.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Basal part of vertex, the clypeus, pronotum, scutellum anterolaterally and basally, metanotum, sterna, legs, etc., pale yellow-brown. Apical part of vertex, basal two-thirds of frons, a large round spot on disk of scutellum, polished black. Antennae pale brown, second segment more or less infuscate. Apical third of frons whitish. Tegmina hyaline, basal half tinged with yellowish-brown, a large hyaline spot in the middle (with a short, dark, transverse stripe at base), which, when the tegmina are closed, discloses the tiny, opaque white wings. Tergites blackish, basally reddish testaceous, apically with a pale yellow-brown, elongate wedge; apical margin of last three tergites sanguineous. Female: sternites pale brown, ovipositor blackish. Last tergite longer than the proceeding segment, apically roundly produced. Length 2.5 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907)

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [131]

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