Species Anectopia igerna Kirkaldy, 1907

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• Anectopia igerna Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [144].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (by monotypy), Bundaberg, Queensland.

Introduction

This is a tiny dark, short-winged species. In his original description of the species from Bundaberg in southern coastal Queensland, Kirkaldy (1907) stated that he only had a single female of this species thereby establishing a holotype by monotypy. Muir (1917) notes that his A. atrata Muir from Luzon in the Philppines may be the same as A. igerna Kirkaldy. Muir described a macropterous and a brachypterous form of A. atrata.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Dark fuscous or blackish-brown; frons a little paler. Antennae fusco-testaceous; legs testaceous. Similar to the genotype [i.e. A. mandane], but the frontal keel is distinctly more pronounced, though the frons is still highly polished, and the tegmina are much shorter and less convex. Length 1 7/8 mill. (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 [144–145]

General References

Muir, F. 1917. Homopterous Notes. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 3(4): 311-338 [326]

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