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Species Cedusa kulia (Kirkaldy, 1906)


Compiler and date details

11 January 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Introduction

This species, which probably doesn't belong in Cedusa, is based on specimens from two localities in the wet tropics of North Queensland. Kirkaldy (1906) indicates that the specimen(s) from Nelson (now known as Gordonvale) were collected from grass.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

 

Diagnosis

Vertex and pronotum sordid brownish, frons and clypeus sordid ferruginous. Scutellum polished black. Tegmina subhyaline, dark smoky, with a blue tinge. Legs pale. Abdomen more or less blackish. Vertex very short, transverse, anteriorly roundly truncate; frons with lateral margins sinuate, apically widened. Length 3 mill to apex of abdomen, 4.75–5 mill to apex of tegmina (Kirkaldy 1906).

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
28-Jan-2011 28-Jan-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)