Species Kiambrama longirostrata Donaldson, 1988

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• Kiambrama longirostrata Donaldson, J.F. 1988. Further studies on Asiracinae (Homoptera: Delphacidae) in Australia and New Caledonia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 27: 133-141 [139].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T10948 ♂ (coll.: 23.ix-7.x.1982, 760 m, rainforest pitfall traps, Monteith, Yeates & Thompson), NE Queensland, 4.5 km W of Cape Tribulation.

Introduction

Another small (< 4 mm) rainforest species from far north Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Donaldson (1988) differentiates this species from K. hylonoma on the basis of its longer rostrum (reaching beyond the hind trochanters) and the frons which is distinctly convex.

ID Keys

Donaldson 1988: 137

Diagnosis References

Donaldson, J.F. 1988. Further studies on Asiracinae (Homoptera: Delphacidae) in Australia and New Caledonia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 27: 133-141 [139–140]

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