Species Hasta paupera Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Hasta paupera Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [395].

  Type data:

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

Introduction

The identity of this species is uncertain and the genus needs taxonomic attention. The species is only known from the type material collected in the wet tropics of North Queensland but it may be widespread along the coast of Queensland. As with H. hastata, it was described from specimens collected in grass.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Possibly a grass feeder

Diagnosis

Immaculate green, of a yellower hue than the preceding (H. hastata). Veins of wings blackish brown. Differs from H. hastata by the vertex being only about as long as the pronotum and mesonotum. Eyes more prominent. The radial is forked nearer the base than is the cubital, this nearer the base than the brachial. Length: 11.5 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906)

ID Keys

Kirkaldy (1906: 394); Melichar (1912: 109)

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 [395]

Melichar, L. 1912. Monographie der Dictyophorinen. Abhandlungen der K.K. Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 7(1): 1-221 [109]

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