Species Kyphocotis nigrescens (Distant, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stenocotis nigrescens Distant, W.L. 1907. Contributions to a knowledge of the Ledrinae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 51: 185-197 [194].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1907/54 ♀ (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Kyphocotis nigrescens (Distant, 1907). —
  Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 7. — Stenocotidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 157-164 [161]

 

Introduction

This species has been recorded from SE Queensland and the northern parts of the Northern Territory. The type locailty was given by Distant (1907) as Queensland but the collector, F.P. Dodd, did most of his collecting in the wet tropics (see Monteith 1991) and it is probable that the type locality is in this region.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Piceous or black with paler mottlings; posterior margins of face, rostrum, body beneath, coxae, bases of femora and the whole of tibiae and tarsi ochraceous; lateral margins of abdomen beneath piceous; vertex of head testaceous brown, with three prominent black spots; pronotum black, with two oblique and very irregular testaceous fasciae which commence at base of lateral margins and almost meet near middle of anterior margin; scutellum with an arcuate testaceous fascia; tegmina piceous or black, the claval area excluding base distinctly more piceous brown, and the apical area much irroratod with dull greyish and where the veins are piceous; legs above mottled with brownish; pronotum finely transversely striate as is also the apical area of the scutellum; posterior tibiae with two prominent spines
near apex and a smaller one near base. Long. incl. tegm., ♀ 9 mm. (Distant 1907).

 

ID Keys

Evans 1966: 107

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1907. Contributions to a knowledge of the Ledrinae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 51: 185-197 [194–195]

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

 

General References

Monteith, G.B. 1991. The Butterfly Man of Kuranda, Frederick Parkhurst Dodd. South Brisbane : Queensland Museum 1, 34 pp. [ISBN 0 7242 4481 6] [1]

 

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)