Species Aneipo diva Kirkaldy, 1906

Aneipo diva Kirkaldy

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aneipo diva Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [425].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: 11.viii.1904, A. Koebele & R.L.C. Perkins), Kuranda, Queensland
  Comment: Lambkin (1978) refers to a holotype. It is unclear from Kirkaldy's original description whether more than one specimen was available to him. With other Kirkaldy species of Auchenorrhyncha, the original material includes specimens labeled as holotype and allotype but Medler (1987) has pointed out that these labels were added later and the designations were never validated by publication. Nevertheless, the specimens labeled as holotype are issued by BPBM as if they were valid holotypes. Consequently, unless Kirkaldy's (1906) material included only a single specimen which would therefore be regarded as a holotype by monotypy, Lambkin's (1978), reference to a specimen as a holotype may constitute a lectotype designation by default.
• Tudea picturata Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xli. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 277-295 [290].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [416] (synonymy of Tudea picturata Distant)

Introduction

This species is known from a number of localities in the wet tropics of NE coastal Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: sap-feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

Head and pronotum ochraceous; eyes, central base of pronotum, and the mesonotum chocolate-brown; abdomen above and beneath virescent, the base greyish white; face, sternum, and legs greyish white, anterior area of face and lateral margins of prosternum pale ochraceous; tegmina stramineous, upper half sprinkled with dark spots, a large spot on dilated basal claval area, and a subapical marginal fascia broadly bifurcating on interior margin, pale purplish brown, this fascia is broken near upper apical angle; wings creamy white, hyaline. Long, excl. tegmen, 6.5 mm; exp. tegmen 19-20 mm. (Distant 1907)
In older, faded specimens, all green coloration is lost, much of the orange-yellow fades to cream or stramineous, red fades to pink and many of the black-brown spots on the fore wing are lost (Lambkin 1978)

ID Keys

Lambkin 1978: 28

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xli. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 277-295 [290]

Lambkin, K.J. 1978. The Australian achiline genera Aneipo Kirkaldy and Bunduica Jacobi (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Achilidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 17(1): 25-40 [28]

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