Species Sextius kurandae Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Sextius kurandae Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [377].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀ (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species was not listed by Day (1999). It was described from Kuranda in the wet tropics of North Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Allied to the immaculate form of S. bipunctata [= Anzac bipunctatus (Fabricius)] but much slenderer, the horns a trifle less pronounced, the anterior margin of the pronotum (viewed in front) narrowly, somewhat deeply impressed, the pronotum immediately posterior to this medianly swollen a little (practically flat in the other species). The tegminal reticulation extends into the subapical cells. Length: (female), 6½ mm, width 2½ 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 [377]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)