Species Kurandella nigromaculata Fennah, 1950

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• Kurandella nigromaculata Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [106].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1948-549 ♀ (coll: F.P. Dodd, v.1904), Kuranda, North Queensland.

Introduction

This small species may be identifiable by the dark spots on the head, thorax and tegmina but it is based on a single female specimen. Unless males can be matched with it, it might be difficult to definitively characterise the species.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

Female: length, 3.8 mm; tegmen, 5.0 mm. Pale straw yellow; five spots on each lateral margin of frons, two spots above eyes, one below antennae, one above ocelli, one at apex of vertex, one at middle of each lateral margin, one in each depression of pronotum and on lateral lobes, six on disk of mesonotum, two on each tegula, piceous. Tegmina stramineous; four spots in costal cell, one in first subapical cell, one in each of cells M1, M2, M3+4 and a regularly spaced series along all veins of corium fuscous-piceous. Hind margin of pregenital plate transverse, slightly produced on each side of middle. Anal segment very short, apical margin convex, deeply notched medially. Subvaginal plate broad, weakly sclerotised in type specimen; ventral lobe of first valvulae with inner margin straight, directed caudad, other margin oblique; third valvulae broadly ovate in lateral view, membrance on posterior margin broader dorsally than ventrally. Bursa copulatrix uniformly covered with minute annular ornamentation, and furnished with a single sub-placoid spine directed posteriorly; a semicircular plate with a spine at entrance to bursa. (Fennah 1950)

ID Keys

Fennah 1950: 47

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [47]

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