Species Kirkaldybrachys euronotoides Constant, 2006

Kirkaldybrachys euronotoides Constant, adult, dorsal view

© Copyright J. Constant, RBINS, Belgium

Kirkaldybrachys euronotoides Constant, face

© Copyright J. Constant, RBINS, Belgium

Museums

Regional Maps

• Kirkaldybrachys euronotoides Constant, J. 2006. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (V). Description of the new Australian genus Kirkaldybrachys Constant, 2006 n.g. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). Bulletin de la Société Royale d'Entomologie de Belgique 142: 47-54 [49].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM ♂ (coll: G.R. Brown, 13.vi.1996), Rubbish Tip Road, Maningrida, Northern Territory [12°05'S 134°13'E].

Introduction

This species, which is a pale brown, fairly nondescript eurybrachid, is recorded along the coastal strip of the Northern Territory, including both Melville Island and Groote Eylandt. Two females from Wyndham, Western Australia, were identified as this species by Constant (2006) although he states that females of the two species of Kirkaldybrachys are impossible to identify unless they are associated with males.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

The species can be differentiated by examination of the male genitalia, particularly the fused gonostyli. Anal tube lanceolate in dorsal view; gonostyli apically rounded in lateral view, elongate and narrowing in ventral view, fused ventrally on basal third, clearly surpassing anal tube; phallic complex with two very elongate, apically hooked processes which are straight over the apical two thirds. (after Constant 2006)

ID Keys

Constant (2006: 54)

Diagnosis References

Constant, J. 2006. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (V). Description of the new Australian genus Kirkaldybrachys Constant, 2006 n.g. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). Bulletin de la Société Royale d'Entomologie de Belgique 142: 47-54 [50–52]

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