Species Argeleusa kurandae Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Argeleusa kurandae Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [423].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.

Introduction

The identity of this species from Kuranda, N. Queensland, requires examination of the Kirkaldy (1906) type material. It is small and brown.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

Pale olive brown, paler beneath. Vertex with four longitudinal blackish brown lines, frons and clypeus minutely mottled with brownish. Pronotum with a short blackish-brown line on each side of median keel and five spots of same color from thence to lateral margins. Scutellum between lateral keels minutely mottled with brownish, with four small, more or less distinctly ocellated spots, two anteriorly and two posteriorly. Tegmina hyaline, pale cinereous, veins pale brownish and white variegated, spotted with brownish especially on clavus, costal cell and apical parts. Anterior and intermediate legs banded with pale brown. Abdomen more or less dark brownish. Length: 5.5 mill. (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 [423]

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