Species Stenocranus agamopsyche Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Stenocranus agamopsyche Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [409].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vii-viii.1904, on grasses and sedges, Koebele), Cairns, Queensland.

Introduction

This species was based on one or more specimens from Cairns in the wet tropics of N. Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Testaceous; frons and clypeus, between the keels, black. Tegmina pale cinereo flavous, immaculate, only the apices of the apical veins dotted with dark brown, there is also a very short, narrow line at the apex of the clavus; Tergites testaceous with a sublateral suffused blackish stripe longitudinally on each side. The eyes are distinctly more rounded than in the species with striped tegmina, and are shorter in proportion to their width. Length: 5–6 mm. (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 [409]

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