Species Cofana unimaculata (Signoret, 1854)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tettigonia unimaculata Signoret, V.A. 1854. Revue Iconographique des Tettigonides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 2: 5-28 [26].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHMW ♂ (Signoret collection), Calcutta, India.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Young, D.A. & Beier, M. 1964. Types of Cicadellinae (Homoptera : Cicadellidae) in the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 67: 565-575 [574].
• Tettigonia punctum Taschenberg, E.L. 1884. Zur Kenntniss der Cicadellinen-Gattung Tettigonia Geoffr. Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften 57: 431–455 [445].

  Type data:

   Holotype MFNB ♀, Gabon.
• Kolla mimica Distant, W.L. 1908. Rhynchota. — Vol. IV. Homoptera and Appendix. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 4: 1-501 [225].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (Lefroy), Calcutta, India; BMNH sex, quantity unknown (Lefroy), Bengal; BMNH sex, quantity, unknown (Lefroy), Pusa, India.
• Kolla tripunctifrons Banks, C.S. 1910. Rhynchota Palawanica Part 2 (Homoptera). Philippine Journal of Science. Section D. General Biology, Ethnology and Anthropology 5: 33-55 [51].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMPH 10976 sex unknown (coll: W. Schultze), Iwahig, Manila, Philippines.
• Tettigoniella differentialis Baker, C.F. 1914. Studies in Philippine Jassoidea: 1, Some Remarkable Tettigoniellidae. Philippine Journal of Science. Section D. General Biology, Ethnology and Anthropology 9(5): 409–421 [420].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) UPLB ♀, quantity unknown (Julian Valdez, coll: Baker), Mount Maquiling, Laguna Province, Luzon, Philippines.
• Tettigoniella hopinensis Distant, W.L. 1918. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Homoptera: Appendix, Heteroptera: Appendix). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 7 viii 210 pp. [3].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll: Bainbrigge Fletcher), Hopin, Upper Burma.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Young, D.A. 1979. A review of the leafhopper genus Cofana (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 81: 1-21 [7, 9] (synonymy of (p .7) T. punctum, K. mimica, (p. 9) K. tripunctifrons, T. differentialis, T. hopinensis)

Generic Combinations

• Cofana unimaculata (Signoret, 1854). —
  Young, D.A. 1979. A review of the leafhopper genus Cofana (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 81: 1-21 [7]

Introduction

The presence of this species in Australia is based on Young (1979) who listed it from Queensland. No additional details of the material on which this record was based were provided. The species is otherwise widely distributed from Africa through Asia to the Philippines and New Guinea so its presence in Queensland is not unexpected. Wilson & Claridge (1991) note that it can be found on rice but is not associated with economic damage.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder (associated flora: Oryza sativa L. [POACEAE] Rice).

Associated Flora References

Wilson, M.R. & Claridge, M.F. 1991. Handbook for the Identification of Leafhoppers and Planthoppers of Rice. Wallingford : CAB International 142 pp. [76] (Oryza sativa)

Diagnosis

Blanc jaunâtre. Tête triangulairement arrondie avec un point noir entre les ocelles, ceux-ci noirâtres et insérés dans un sillon profond. On remarque sur le bord antérieur de la tête, au-dessus du rebord antennaire, un très petit point noir. Prothorax très convexe en avant, droit en arrière, audessus de l'écusson, un peu ridé transversalement et présentant en avant un sillon. Elytres d'un blanc jaunâtre avec les stries un peu brunes. Abdomen et pattes d'un blanc jaunâtre (Signoret 1854).

A smaller species compared with C. spectra; head more pointed, lacking the central black spot at margin of face and vertex. Head distinctly green in colour, forewings very pale green. Length. ♂ 5.6–6.2 mm, ♀, 6.6–6.9 mm (Wilson & Claridge 1991).

ID Keys

Young 1979: 9–11

Diagnosis References

Young, D.A. 1979. A review of the leafhopper genus Cofana (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 81: 1-21 [9–11]

General References

Wilson, M.R. & Claridge, M.F. 1991. Handbook for the Identification of Leafhoppers and Planthoppers of Rice. Wallingford : CAB International 142 pp. [76]

Young, D.A. 1979. A review of the leafhopper genus Cofana (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 81: 1-21 [7]

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