Species Aristyllis adippe Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Aristyllis adippe Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [420].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904; possible holotype by monotypy), Cairns, Queensland.

Introduction

Kirkaldy (1906) gives measurement of a male so this species should be identifiable using the male genitalia.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

Pale ferruginous, base and middle of frons blackish brown, banded with white as in the preceding species. Sterna and legs pale. Abdomen more or less marked with black. Tegmina pale yellowish hyaline, veins mostly darker, costal cell dark apically. Structure of head similar to the type. Legs not spinose. Length (male) 5 1/8 mill. (Kirkaldy 1906)

Kirkaldy (1906) provides a key to the three species of Aristyllis and A. adippe is differentiated by the pale ferrugineous scutellum and the slight infuscation of the costal cell.

ID Keys

Kirkaldy 1906: 419

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 [420]

General 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 [420]

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