Species Kamabrachys signata (Distant, 1893)

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• Platybrachys signata Distant, W.L. 1893. Contributions to a knowledge of the homopterous family Fulgoridae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1892: 275-286 [281].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 013588858 ♂ (co-ordinates given by Constant (2023), reg. no. from NHMLUK database), Peak Downs, QLD [22°19′30″ S, 148°0′0″ E].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 013588859-61 1 ♂, 2 ♀ (co-ordinates given by Constant (2023), reg. no. from NHMLUK database), Peak Downs, QLD [22°19′30″ S, 148°0′0″ E];
  Syntype(s) BMNH 013588858-61 2 ♂, 2 ♀, Peak Downs, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Constant, J. 2023. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (XVII). The new Australian genus Kamabrachys gen. nov. with ten new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). European Journal of Taxonomy 895: 1-133 [92].

 

Generic Combinations

• Kamabrachys signata (Distant, 1893). —
  Constant, J. 2023. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (XVII). The new Australian genus Kamabrachys gen. nov. with ten new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). European Journal of Taxonomy 895: 1-133 [92, Figs 1–4, 5B, 57–68] (New combination)

 

Introduction

Constant (2023) established the identity of this species through examination of Distant's type material and designation of a lectotype. Distant (1893) also recognised two colour variants which he termed "var. a" and "var. b", also from the type locality of P. signata.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

East coast from north of Townsville to about Yamba, NSW, mostly east of the Great Dividing Range

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head, thorax and legs fuscous, speckled with testaceous; abdomen sanguineous; coxae, base of anterior and intermediate tibiae, and the posterior legs, pale sanguineous. Tegmina brownish, speckled and irregularly spotted with fuscous; a series of small greyish spots on costal margin, of which one is very large at about two-thirds from base, a transverse greyish fascia a little before apex, after which the colour is dark fuscous, containing either one or a few very small greyish spots. In some specimens there is a distinct and somewhat large fuscous spot at about centre of clavus. Wings blackish, the basal area ochraceous, and with two large greyish marginal spots, one at apex and the other at about centre of posterior margin.
Var a.- Tegmina with a transvers fuscous fascia near base.
Var b.- As Var a. but the wings are without the apical grey spot.
Long. excl. tegm. 7 millim. Exp. tegm., 20 millim.
(Distant 1893)

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1893. Contributions to a knowledge of the homopterous family Fulgoridae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1892: 275-286 [281–282]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
23-Aug-2024	EURYBRACHIDAE Stål, 1862	15-Aug-2024	MODIFIED
30-Nov-2010		30-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)