Species Dicranotropis aristoxenus Kirkaldy, 1907

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• Dicranotropis aristoxenus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [134].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, Perkins), Cairns, Queensland.

Introduction

This species, based on females only, was described from 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

Very close to [Dicranotropis anderida Kirkaldy], but a little smaller and coloured differently. Pale yellowish testaceous, without orange colouration and the frons not (at least noticeably) maculate. Tegmina pale yellow hyaline, veins uniformly pale testaceous, not granulate. Lateral margins of frons very slightly more rounded laterally and more constricted basally. Length 3.5 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907)

ID Keys

Kirkaldy 1907: 133

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [134]

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