Species Aufidus trifasciatus Stål, 1863

Aufidus trifasciatus Stål, adult.

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Aufidus trifasciatus Stål, C. 1863. Hemipterorum exoticorum generum et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptiones. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 1: 571-603 [594].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, quantity unknown (W.W. Saunders collection), Mysool Island, Indonesia.
• Aufidellus australensis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [381] [junior subjective synonym of Aufidus trifasciatus Stål, 1863].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904; syntypes known to include males and at least one female), Kuranda, Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904; syntypes known to include males and at least one female), Cairns, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [312] (synonymy of A. australensis)

Introduction

This beautifully marked species is found in the wet tropics of North Queensland and shared with Papua New Guinea and Maluku in Indonesia. It is quite distinctive in its markings.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

Diagnosis

Dilute lutescens; apice rostri, tibiis anticis extus, apice articuli ultimi tarsorum, fascia basali verticis, fascia posteriore thoracis, supra basin tegminum etiam producta, nee non horum fascia ante medium nigris; alis tegminibusque pone fasciam nigram vitreis, bis fusco-venosis, areolis parvis ad apicem marginis costalis fuscis. ♀. Long. 5½, exp. tegm. 17 mm. (Stål 1863).

Length, male female, 6.2-6.5 mm. General coloration orange with three or four broad transverse black bars. Face of head orange. Crown, anteriorly orange, black between the eyes. Pronotum anteriorly orange, posteriorly, and continuing narrowly onto tegmina, broadly black. Scutellum orange. Tegmen proximally orange, followed by a broad transverse opaque brown stripe; apically in part, or wholly, dark hyaline brown; between the two dark areas, broadly vitreous. Thorax and abdomen ventrally orange. (Evans 1966)

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [312]

Stål, C. 1863. Hemipterorum exoticorum generum et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptiones. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 1: 571-603 [594]

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