Species Giffardia dolichocephala Kirkaldy, 1906

Giffardia dolichocephala Kirkaldy, adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Giffardia dolichocephala Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [336].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: vii-viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland; BPBM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.

Introduction

This strange looking leafhopper has been found across the top end from the NE corner of Western Australia to the wet tropics of North Queensland and across Torres Strait islands to New Guinea.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

More or less pale yellowish testaceous, a longitudinal brownish line from apex of vertex to posterior margin of scutellum, the keel on these parts being often pale and the brown line more or less interrupted, sometimes irregularly widened, on the vertex. On each of the genae is a thin brown smudged line, uniting anteriorly on the frons. Tegminal veins whitish, whole internal margin smoky, as also two small spots, one on each side of the 2nd apical vein. Leg hairs pale. Male: Tegmina extending beyond apex of abdomen. Female: Tegmina not extending to apex of abdomen. Length: (male) 5½–6½, (female) 8¼ 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 [336]

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