Species Delphacodes hyas (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Delphax hyas Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [156].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904), Redlynch, Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Delphacodes hyas (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Muir, F. 1917. Homopterous Notes. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 3(4): 311-338 [333]

Introduction

A species differentiated by Kirkaldy (1907) from "Delphax" dryope Kirkaldy (now Toya dryope (Kirkaldy), on the basis of colour. Its validity and true generic affinities need to be determined through examination of the type series which includes males and females from two localities in the wet tropics of North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Somewhat like dryope, but the keels of the frons are only very slightly lighter than the pale ochraceous disk; antennae not reaching to base of clypeus. Tegmina hyaline, veins pale yellow, tending to pale fuscous on the membrane, granules pale fuscous. Spur with 22 spines. Male: pale ochraceous; tergites broadly fuscous medio-transversely, orange basally. Sternites more or less dark fuscous partially, pygophore suffused with fuscous beneath. Female: almost uniform, more or less pale ochraceous. Length 3.3 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907)

ID Keys

Kirkaldy 1907: 150

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [156]

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