Species Dworena hyacintha (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Dworena hyacintha Kirkaldy, adult

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Sephena hyacintha Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [457].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: vii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.
  Paralectotype(s) BPBM ♀ (coll.: vi.1904), Brisbane, Queensland; NRS ♀ (coll: vii.1904), Cairns, Queensland; NRS 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (coll: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Medler, J.T. 1987. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XI. Taxonomic notes on Kirkaldy Types in the Bishop Museum, with illustrations of the genitalia of male lectotypes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 27: 115-125 [121].
• Sephena argus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [457].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: viii.1904; holotype by monotypy), Cairns, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Medler, J.T. 1986. Anzora and Dworena, two new genera erected for Australian species formerly placed in Paratella and Sephena. (Homoptera: Fulgoridae). Insecta Mundi 1(4): 206-208 [207] (synonymy of Sephena argus Kirkaldy)

Generic Combinations

• Dworena hyacintha (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Medler, J.T. 1986. Anzora and Dworena, two new genera erected for Australian species formerly placed in Paratella and Sephena. (Homoptera: Fulgoridae). Insecta Mundi 1(4): 206-208 [207]

Introduction

This species, which is usually covered with a mealy grey powder, has more of a purplish grey colour in life. It also has a number of distinct round dark spots of various sizes on the tegmen, the largest two in line down the centre of the tegmen. This species is distributed from Torres Strait Islands in far North Queensland to the Sydney basin in New South Wales. It has been swept from eucalypt foliage.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Nandewar (NAN), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Specimens dark brown to black in overall colour, costal margin of the tegmina a contrasting lighter shade, disc with small irregular pigment spots, largest of which is at the midpoint of the discal cell crossvein. The species is easily recognized by the characters of the male genitalia. Metatibial spine formula 1 : 7 : 9. Aedeagus with long apical process directed basally (Medler 1986).

ID Keys

Medler 1986: 207

Diagnosis References

Medler, J.T. 1986. Anzora and Dworena, two new genera erected for Australian species formerly placed in Paratella and Sephena. (Homoptera: Fulgoridae). Insecta Mundi 1(4): 206-208 [207]

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