Species Carvaka flava Fletcher & Semeraro, 2007

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• Carvaka flava Fletcher, M.J. & Semeraro, L. 2007. Genus Carvaka Distant in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 46(2): 89-95 [94].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: B. Cantrell, 14.xi.1969), Cooper Creek, 13 miles N of Daintree River, North Queensland.

 

Introduction

This pale yellow-brown species is only known from two specimens from the wet tropics in North Queensland. It fits reasonably closely with the definition of Viraktamath's (1998) pruthii species group but it lacks apical or subapical processes on the male aedeagus.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head pale yellow with indistinct transverse brown line across vertex between hind edges of ocelli. Pronotum cream with three small brown spots on each side in transverse line behind eye. Tegmen transparent pale yellow brown with brown infuscation at apex of each claval vein, at apex of clavus and on most crossveins. (Fletcher & Semeraro 2007).
Fletcher & Semeraro (2007) described and figured the male genitalia.

 

ID Keys

Fletcher & Semeraro 2007: 90

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. & Semeraro, L. 2007. Genus Carvaka Distant in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 46(2): 89-95 [94]

 

General References

Viraktamath, C.A. 1998. A revision of the leafhopper tribe Paraboloponini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae) in the Indian subcontinent. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 67(2): 153–207 [159]

 

History of changes

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