Species Cythna laon Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Cythna laon Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [423].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland
  Comment: Kirkaldy (1906: 424) refers to a 'another specimen' from Kuranda (coll: viii.1904) which may belong to this species; this specimen cannot be recognised as being part of the type series because of Kirkaldy's expressed uncertainty about its conspecificity; the Cairns specimen may be a holotype by monotypy although Kirkaldy (1906) gave a range for the length measurement, implying that there may have been at least two specimens.

Introduction

Currently unidentifiable and requiring examination of the original type material. Kirkaldy (1906) had an additional specimen from Kuranda which he believed may have belonged to this species, which demonstrates that even Kirkaldy had difficulty recognising the species.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

More or less pale ferrugineo-testaceous, vertex and scutellum more or less blackish about the keels. Scutellum also suffused with dark brown. Tegmina subhyaline, cinereous, mottled and granulate with blackish brown. Length: 4.5-4.75 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906)
Additional specimen from Kuranda which Kirkaldy thought may have belonged to this species is 4.25 mm.

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 [423]

General 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 [424]

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