Species Anemolua hanuala Kirkaldy, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anemolua hanuala Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [329].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: viii.1904, Koebele), Cairns, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1993. Lectotype designations and new synonymies for G. W. Kirkaldy's Australian Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) held in the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. General and Applied Entomology 25: 35-59 [43].

 

Introduction

This beautiful leafhopper has an enamelled appearance with cream colouring on a dark background. It is found in the tropical parts of Queensland and the Northern Territory.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Gulf Plains (GUP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Testaceous: vertex with a black impressed spot near the base on each side of the sulculation. Frons and clypeus pale brownish. Pleura and legs more or less blackish. Pronotum and scutellum marked with whitish. Tegmina brownish, veins and some blotches on costa etc. whitish; sometimes a blackish blotch near middle of tegmina. Female: abdomen longer than tegmina; last segment roundly emarginate, pygofers about four times as long as the latter, ovipositor very long. Length 3¾–5 1/8 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [329]

 

History of changes

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