Species Haplodelphax iuncicola Kirkaldy, 1907

Haplodelphax iuncicola Kirkaldy, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Haplodelphax iuncicola Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [146].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quanntity unknown (coll.: on Juncus, Koebele), Childers, Queensland; BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: vii-xii.1904), Bundaberg, Queensland.

Introduction

This is the most common and widespread species of the genus in eastern Australia. Its dark colouring and elongate head makes it fairly easy to distinguish from other common delphacids in the region.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Brownish testaceous, frons with scattered yellower specks. Tegmina hyaline, veins brownish or pale yellowish; wing veins dark brown. Tergites yellowish, obscurely spotted submedianly, in a row, with pale brown, in the short-winged form; in the macropterous form, the tergites are more or less suffused with blackish-brown. Tegmina not granulate, not piliferous. Female ovipositor black. Length: 2 1/2 (macropterous), 2 7/8 mm (brachypterous) (Kirkaldy 1907)

ID Keys

Kirkaldy 1907: 145

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [146]

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