Species Kahaono pallida Evans, 1966

Museums

Regional Maps

• Kahaono pallida Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [261].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K68465 ♂ (coll.: iii.1959), Perth, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This otherwise rather plain leafhopper often has a wash of pale pink on parts of the tegmen and sometimes on the head and thorax. It is widespread and reasonably common in a broad swathe of southern and eastern Australia as well as being recorded from coastal and inland parts of SW Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Coolgardie (COO), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mulga Lands (ML), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face of head dark brown anteriorly and pallid posteriorly, or entirely pallid. Crown and thorax pallid or pink. Tegmen hyaline with a pink area of varying extent adjacent to the apex of the claval suture and sometimes also around R1. Length ♂ 3.2, ♀ 3.9 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [261]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)