Species Dziwneono etcetera Dworakowska, 1972

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• Dziwneono etcetera Dworakowska, I. 1972. Australian Dikraneurini (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques 20(3): 193-201 [200].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K71521 ♂ (coll.: light trap), Darwin, Northern Territory.

 

Introduction

This species is marked with extensive red areas with pale brown banding on the wings although there is considerable variation shown. It is distributed across the top end of Australia from Western Australia to far North Queensland. It has one of the silliest names of any Australian leafhopper.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Yellowish testaceous, face light. Brown red pattern. Upper pygophore hook curved and broadened at tip. Subgenital plate broad in apical part with two or three macrosetae; outer plica quite long, broadened at tip. terminated with a small process. Upper part of paramere slightly arcuated, ornamented with big, irregular ledges. Aedeagus short, serrated at sides, ornamented with teeth on its dorsal surface, broadened in the middle part. Length ♂ 3.1 mm, ♀ 3.3 mm (Dworakowska 1972).

 

Diagnosis References

Dworakowska, I. 1972. Australian Dikraneurini (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques 20(3): 193-201 [200]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)