Species Kiambrama hylonoma Donaldson, 1988

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• Kiambrama hylonoma Donaldson, J.F. 1988. Further studies on Asiracinae (Homoptera: Delphacidae) in Australia and New Caledonia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 27: 133-141 [138].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T10947 ♂ (coll.: 2.x.1982, 680 m, Monteith, Yeates & Thompson, pyrethrum knockdown, rainforest), NE Queensland, 3.5 km W of Cape Tribulation.

Introduction

A small (< 4 mm) rainforest species from far north Queensland. It was described from two males and one female.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Donaldson (1988) differentiates the two species of the genus on the basis that K. hylonoma has a shorter rostrum, which reaches only to the level of the hind trochanters, and has the frons slightly concave between the lateral margins and the submedian carinae.

ID Keys

Donaldson 1988: 137

Diagnosis References

Donaldson, J.F. 1988. Further studies on Asiracinae (Homoptera: Delphacidae) in Australia and New Caledonia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 27: 133-141 [138]

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