Species Aristyllis aristyllis Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Aristyllis aristyllis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [419].

  Type data:

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

Introduction

As with other species in this genus, the identity of this species will require an examination of the original type material. It is unknown whether a male syntype is available. Kirkaldy (1906) gives two localities for the type series so there are at least two specimens.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

Head gradually shading from brownish ferruginous at base of vertex (and also on apical half of clypeus) to black near apex of frons. Eyes and scutellum dark ferruginous. Anterior half of pronotum blackish, posterior half whitish. Sterna, rostrum and legs mostly testaceous, anterior femora black, the base and a band near the apex, pale. Abdomen mostly black. Tegmina subhyaline brownish-yellow, a tiny white speck about middle of commissure, the basal margin, a spot at base of costal cell, apical half of costal cell and a spot about the middle of the clavus, blackish, with a metallic-blue glint; some of the veins sanguinescent. Rostrum reaching just beyond posterior coxae. Apical angles of vertical disk acute. Tibiae spineless. Length: 4.5 mill to apex of abdomen; 5.75-6.5 to apex of tegmina. (Kirkaldy 1906)

Kirkaldy (1906) provides a key to species of Aristyllis and differentiates this species by the dark ferruginous scutellum and the presence of a dark bluish black spot near the apex 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 [419]

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 [419]

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