Species Kahaono kirkaldyi Dworakowska, 1972
Kahaono kirkaldyi Dworakowska, adult.
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Species Kahaono kirkaldyi Dworakowska, 1972
Compiler and date details
18 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Kahaono kirkaldyi Dworakowska, I. 1972. Australian Dikraneurini (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques 20(3): 193-201 [197].
Type data:
Holotype AM ♂ (coll: light trap), Darwin, Northern Territory.
Introduction
This fairly small plain species is known mainly from eastern Australia although records exist from Darwin, Northern Territory (the type locality) and Adelaide, South Australia.
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: parenchyma feeder.
Diagnosis
Small, pale, with vertex produced in the middle and tip of forewing pointed. Ends of apical veins in forewing infuscated. Subgenital plate like that in K. pallida Evans. Pygophore side provided with numerous thin microsetae at its hind part. Aedeagus short, tubular, arcuated, gonopore dorsal, shifted away from tip. Length ♂ 2.3–2.4 mm (Dworakowska 1972).
Diagnosis References
Dworakowska, I. 1972. Australian Dikraneurini (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques 20(3): 193-201 [197]
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 26-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |