Species Neovulturnus vaecors (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vulturnus vaecors Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [84].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, quantity unkown (coll.: ix-xii.1904, Koebele), Bundaberg, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Neovulturnus vaecors (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [151]

 

Introduction

This pale orange species is known from Bundaberg in SE Queensland and from Mt Wilson in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Allied to the last [N. vanduzeei (Kirkaldy)] but the basal margin (except extreme part) with a transverse band of minute brownish reticulations. Pronotum mottled with palebrown, with a well defined undulating ivorywhite median fascia. Male: genitalia much like those of the preceding species. Length 4¼ 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 [84]

 

History of changes

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