Genus Benella Kirkaldy, 1906
Compiler and date details
28.7.2010 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Benella 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 species:
Benella aliena Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.
Introduction
This genus must be represented unrecognised in collections because it was described from the well collected Sydney region. A revision of the Plectoderini will provide better diagnoses for all the genera.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
IBRA
NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)
Diagnosis
"Characters of Aristyllis, but frons not excavated." (Kirkaldy 1906)
Kirkaldy's (1906) key to genera provides: "Tegmina smooth, not granulate; veins thin and prominent, not granulate. Face with two transverse white bands".
ID Keys
Kirkaldy 1906: 417; Fennah 1950: 47
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]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 12-Aug-2010 | 12-Aug-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
| 21-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED |