Species Eurynomeus australiae Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Eurynomeus australiae Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [422].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904; possible holotype by monotypy), Cairns, Queensland.

Introduction

A small species, pale brown in colour, whose identity requires examination of the original type specimens from Cairns.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

Stramineous; a line on either side of median keel of vertex and a rectangular spot on each side of frons at base, a spot on mesopleura externally, black, lateral margins of pronotum and scutellum brownish. Tegmina hyaline, costa, etc, colorless, most of the rest pale smoky, a spot at the exteroapical angle and two or three veins between it and the costal cell, brownish. Tergites sordid yellowish, more or less lined with orange. Length: 3 mill to apex of abdomen; 4.75 to apex of tegmina. (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 [422]

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