Species Kamendaka (Kamendaka) australis Muir, 1913

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• Kamendaka australis Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [55].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: Perkins & Koebele, on sugar cane, might be holotype by monotypy), Cairns, Queensland.

Introduction

Described from one or more female specimens collected on sugarcane at Cairns in the wet tropics of North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

In profile vertex slightly ascending, keels on face contiguous basal two-thirds; tegmina pointed at region of first three apical median veins, otherwise agrees structurally with description of type. Stramineous, reddish on vertex and on clypeus; eyes reddish-brown; tegmina hyaline slightly opaquely white with waxy secretion, veins yellowish, irregular stramineous markings from costa across base of radial cell to hind margin, broad along the hind margin and over the apical portion of radial cell, fuscous in subcostal, radial-apical, second, third and fifth median apical cells and two black spots in costal cell; wings hyaline, white-veined, opaquely white with waxy secretion. Length2 .5 mm.; tegmen 4.0 mm (Muir 1913)

Diagnosis References

Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [55]

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