Species Aneono pulcherrima Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Aneono pulcherrima Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [359].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales
  Comment: Kirkaldy (1906) stated "One of the Sydney specimens is the type.".

 

Introduction

This is indeed a very beautiful insect, as the specific name implies. It is found in SE Queensland and the Sydney basin of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Vertex and pronotum bright orange yellow, the former tinged with pink, and with a broadish longitudinal pallid stripe, anterior (dorsal) margin also more or less pallid narrowly. Pronotum with a narrow longitudinal stripe, a dot on each side or this anteriorly, and a [pair of query shaped marks] laterally about the middle, pallid. Posterior margin very narrowly pallid. Scutellum reddish, posterior lobe blackish with two white spots. Basal two-thirds (or more) of tegmina rich crimson, darker on the clavus exteriorly; wedge on the clavus and the part of the corium between the cubital and median veins hyaline and somewhat infumate; two short wavy whitish lines on clavus and two white marks on corium, one (with a black spot at its apex) close to apex of clavus, the other at apex of area between median and cubital veins. Apical third of tegmina hyaline, more or less tinged with yellowish. Wings milkwhite, veins pale yellow. Underside pale testaceous or yellowish; frons more or less tinged with orange; basal sternites of abdomen more or less blackish. Vertex between the eyes two-fifths wider than medianly long, base roundly emarginate. Pronotum transverse, subquadrangular, same length as head, posterior margin almost straight. Scutellum as wide as vertex between eyes and as long as pronotum, acuminately produced posteriorly, transversely sulcate near the posterior angle. Female: Sheath at least 7 times as long as the ultimate abdominal sternite (which is sinuately excavate), with short white
bristly hairs. Length 3–3 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 [359]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)