Species Kahaono yhawhoa Dworakowska, 1972
Compiler and date details
18 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Kahaono yhawhoa 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 K71535 ♂ (coll.: x.1966), Albany, Western Australia.
Introduction
This species is only known from the type locality of Albany, Western Australia. A single male specimen which looks remarkably similar in male genitalia is known from the Mootwingee area of western New South Wales but lacks the distinctive markings described by Dworakowska (1972) for this species.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Jarrah Forest (JF)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: parenchyma feeder.
Diagnosis
Resembling Kahaono wallacei Evans, differing by larger size, distinct brown pattern on forewing, rather brown than reddish pattern on upper side of thorax and vertex, by thinner aedeagus, pointed at tip and tapering on its whole length and by upper pygophore hook pointed at tip. Length ♂ 3.7 mm, ♀ 3.9–4 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
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 26-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |