Species Bunyella dromedarius (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acanthuchus dromedarius Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [377].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Pogonella dromedarius (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [286]
• Bunyella dromedarius (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [658]

 

Introduction

This short, squat species is only known from the holotype female from Cairns in the wet tropics of North Queensland. It has a humped appearance with a distinctive saddle-shaped posterior process on the pronotum.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Allied to A. kershawi God., but the horns are larger and the clavus not entirely opaque, etc. Dark ferruginous with bright yellow pubescence. Eyes yellow. Tegmina subhyaline, yellowish apically; costal cell, base of radial cell and of clavus opaque ferruginous with yellowish pubescence, veins yellowish ferruginous with yellowish pubescence. Legs yellowish and ferruginous. Pronotal horns large, extending beyond lateral margin of body. Disk posterior to this is roundly obtusangulately elevated and again elevated roundly at about the middle of the tegmen (not touching the latter in tbe middle); posterior process does not nearly reach the apex of the tegmina. Two subapical cells, the exterior nearly circular, not nearly reaching exterior margin of tegmen; third apical elongate. Length: 4¼–4½ mm: width 2¾ mm. (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 [377]

 

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