Genus Francesca Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Francesca Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [424].

  Type species:

   Francesca saleminophila Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

Introduction

Two species have been described, both from the wet tropics of N. Queensland. Their identities is uncertain and examination of the original type material will be required.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Distinguished by the somewhat deep, circular impression on the middle of the vertex. Vertex longer than wide, produced a little in front of the eyes, the lateal margins forking near apex, making the apical margins tridentate, the median angle being acute. Pronotum with an impressed point on each side of middle keel, almost rectangularly emarginate posteriorly. Scutellum diamond shaped, much longer than the other genera. (Kirkaldy 1906)

ID Keys

Kirkaldy 1906: 417; Fennah 1950: 47

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 [424]

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