Species Interocrea nigrofasciata (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Interocrea nigrofasciata (Kirkaldy), adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurycercopis nigrofasciata Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [383].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: vii.1904), 'Nelson' (=Gordonvale), Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. A review of the Australian aphrophorid spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42(1): 84-93 [87].

Generic Combinations

• Interocrea nigrofasciata (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. A review of the Australian aphrophorid spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42(1): 84-93

Introduction

Interocrea nigrofasciata was originally described from Nelson (=Gordonvale) in North Queensland and has also been recorded on the Atherton Tableland. Almost nothing is known about its biology. As with I. regalis, the species is wedge-shaped with the head triangularly produced anteriorly with a flat vertex. The tegmina (forewings) are opaque brown with small dark brown spots and some obscure darker transverse bands.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

Diagnosis

Brown or yellowish brown, closely and finely pubescent (yellowish). Frons blackish brown. Pronotum, scutellum and tegmina with more or less regular small black spots. Basal third of corium more or less blackish (except at extreme base), and a blackish fascia a little apical of the middle exteriorly to commissure of clavus; another fascia nearer the apex, broken in the middle. Legs more or less blackish brown. Length 8.25 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 [383]

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