Species Euronotobrachys arcuata Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Euronotobrachys arcuata Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [446].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vii-viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.

Introduction

The five species of Euronotobrachys await redescription since their identities are not well documented.This species is recorded from Cairns, Queensland (the type locality) and from Broome in Western Australia. Its true distribution beyond these two records is unknown.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, WA: Dampierland (DL), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Pale yellowish ferruginous, marked with blackish brown, the frons freckled with dirty brown. Sterna and abdomen sanguineous. Tegmina pale ferruginous, irregularly and sordidly spotted with blackish brown, especially apically; costa near apical angle and the apical margin (except extreme) hyaline, a pale yellowish transverse band near base. Wings dark smoky. Legs black, obscurely and sparsely marked with yellowish brown. Vertex a little more than twice as long as wide, longitudinally striate, roundly arched anteriorly. Face wider than long, acute-angulate laterally, a transverse round-oval carina on the disk. Tegmina postero-apically almost rectangular, posterior angle extending further out than the rounded anteroapical angle. Length: 8 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 [446-447]

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