Species Epithalamium aziola Kirkaldy, 1906

Epithalamium aziola Kirkaldy, adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Epithalamium aziola Kirkaldy, adult, lateral view.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Epithalamium aziola Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [451].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: Koebele, stylopized; holotype by monotypy), Sydney, New South Wales.

Introduction

This delightful little planthopper has been recorded from both sides of the continent. Moir et al. (2003) recorded it from Mirbelia dilatata R.Br. ex Dryand. (Fabaceae), Bossiaea aquifolium Benth. and three species of Acacia (all Fabaceae) as well as Hakea lissocarpha R.Br. (Proteaceae) in the jarrah forests of SW Western Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum and scutellum pale ferruginous; underside and the legs paler. Tegmina hyaline, veins blackish brown, pale ferruginous and whitish; costal cell (the transverse veins pale), basal half and a spot at apex of subcostal, basal cell, clavus, a long spot about the middle of the tegmina, apical margin broadly (except a small hyaline spot at the apex of some of the cells), and a narrow oblique band nearer to the apex than the middle, broadening and darkening costally, more or less dark smoky. Wings hyaline, marginally smoky. Abdomen basally black. Length: about 5½ mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

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 [451]

General References

Moir, M.L., Majer, J.D. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. New records for Hemiptera species in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 21(4): 353-357 [354]

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