Species Benella aliena Kirkaldy, 1906
Compiler and date details
28.7.2010 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Benella aliena 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 sex, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905; possibly holotype by monotypy), Sydney, New South Wales.
Introduction
A small brownish achilid from the Sydney region although the presence of two transverse white bands on the face should aid its identification.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
IBRA
NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: phloem feeder.
Nymph: fungivore.
Diagnosis
Pale ferrugineous, face with two transverse white bands. Pronotum testaceous; tegmina hyaline, costal cell more or less infuscate; veins more or less pale sanguineous. Legs etc, pale, anterior and intermediate tibiae annulate with dark brown. Abdomen dark brownish black, posterior margin of each segment narrowly pale. Posterior tibiae with a spine. Length: 3 mill to apex of abdomen; 4.75 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 [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 |