Species Kahaono wallacei Evans, 1966

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• Kahaono wallacei 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 ♂ (coll.: x.1960, M. Wallace), Perth, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This species is pale yellow in life with distinctive but variable patches of reddish orange, black, brown and white. It is widely distributed in eastern Australia from Torres Strait islands and the Gulf Country of North Queensland to southern Victoria and also occurs in Perth, Western Australia. It has been found in western Sydney sharing the silken shelters made by the Silk Leafhopper, Kahaono montana Evans, but it is unknown if this is a social parasitism or a rare form of interspecific cooperation. It is more likely the former since K. wallacei has been found in the Orange region of New South Wales feeding without any silken structures.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Gulf Plains (GUP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head yellow, pronotum anteriorly yellow, posteriorly pink. Scutellum anteriorly yellow, posteriorly china white. Tegmen in part yellow, costal area vitreous, apex pale hyaline brown; clavus entirely pink or pink with a central yellow area. A long irregular brown marking adjacent to apex of the claval suture and sometimes two smaller brown markings more proximally situated. Length ♂ 3.2, ♀ 3.8 mm (Evans 1966).

 

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)