Species Kyphocotis claudenda (Walker, 1858)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ledra claudenda Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [359].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 57/130 ♂, Moreton Bay, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Stenocotis claudenda (Walker, 1858). —
  Distant, W.L. 1907. Contributions to a knowledge of the Ledrinae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 51: 185-197 [194]
• Kyphocotis claudenda (Walker, 1858). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [107]

 

Introduction

This species is unknown to the compiler. Numerous specimens in the UQIC collection, now with QM, have extended the range from the type locality in SE Queensland along the eastern coastline of Queensland to the tip of Cape York Peninsula and across to the Gulf Coast of the Northern Territory.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Cervina; caput disco postico lateribusque subtus nigris; vertex brevis, arcuatus, rugulosus; prothorax nigro bivittatus, strigis duabus lateralibus obliquis fuscis; pectoris discus niger; alae anticae sordide vitreae, basi fuscae, lituris guttisque nonnullis testaceis et obscure fuscis. Fawn-colour. Head black in the disk hindward and on each side beneath; vertex short, arched, rugulose, hardly longer in the middle than on each side. Prothorax with two black stripes, which form two acute exterior angles; two lateral oblique brown streaks. Pectus wilh a black disk. Fore wings dingy vitreous, brown at the base, with some irregular dark brown and testaceous marks or dots. Length of the body 4½ lines; of the wings 10 lines. (Walker 1858).

 

ID Keys

Evans 1966: 107

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [107]

Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [359]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)