Species Basileocephalus thaumatonotus Kirkaldy, 1906

Basileocephalus thaumatonotus Kirkaldy, adult

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Basileocephalus thaumatonotus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [429].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.
• Urabunna lineata Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [414].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [166]

Introduction

This species has narrow, pinkish-white tegmina with at least one longitudinal dark stripe. Distant's (1907) description of U. lineata simply notes "Queensland" but the collector was F.P. Dodd, the Butterfly Man of Kuranda (Monteith 1991), who collected primarily in the wet tropics of North Queensland, the source of Kirkaldy's (1906) material of the senior synonym.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

More or less pale fulvotestaceous, a black spot on anterior ambulacra. Tegmina subhyaline, pale pinkish white, costal cell whitish, veins coralline, 2 or 3 more or less entire, narrow dark brown longitudinal stripes on tegmina. Genital segment dark. Length 3 mm to apex of abdomen, 6.25 to apex of tegmina (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 [429]

General References

Monteith, G.B. 1991. The Butterfly Man of Kuranda, Frederick Parkhurst Dodd. South Brisbane : Queensland Museum 1, 34 pp. [ISBN 0 7242 4481 6]

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