Species Candulifera rapea Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
30 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Candulifera rapea Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [74].
Type data:
Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: 6-12.v.1975, at light, K.J. Houston), Coen area, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.
Introduction
A small yellow and brown species from the northern coastal areas of the Northern Territory and Queensland. Females tend to have less brown colouring than males. The locality in the Northern Territory was given by Webb (1983) as "Stuart Point" but the only Stuart Point in the Northern Territory is on the Pellew Islands in the gulf country which is an unlikely source for the specimens. It is more likely that they came from Point Stuart which is 150 km E of Darwin and is the place where John MacDouall Stuart first reached the coast after his epic trip northwards across the continent from Adelaide in 1861–62 (Glenn Bellis, pers. comm. 2011).
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NT, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Yellow; head and thorax variably mottled with brown, markings paler or absent in female. Forewings with subcostal area with brown and yellow patches; veins with brown and whitish patches. Abdomen marked dorsally and ventrally with brown. Male genitalia with apical process of styles tapered to acute apex. Aedeagus with a fairly long socle region; shaft abruptly tapered distally to acute apex in lateral aspect, without processes. Female genitalia with posterior margin of pregenital sternite more or less straight medially. Expanded apex of third valvulae about half length of narrow basal region and extended about half its length beyong pygophore. Length: ♂ 3.7–3.9 mm, ♀ 3.7–4.1 mm (Webb 1983).
Diagnosis References
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [74]
History of changes
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |