Species Kyphocotis parva Distant, 1907

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

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 4 ♂, 1 ♀ (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.

 

Introduction

This smallish species is distributed between the tropical parts of Western Australia across the top end to tropical Queensland. The type locality was given by Distant (1907) as "Queensland" but the collector was F.P. Dodd who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics (see Monteith 1991). It is probable that Distant's type material came from this region. Evans (1937) suggested that K. parva may have been a synonym of K. tessellata Kirkaldy.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Ochraceous, marked and mottled with umber-brown; vertex of head with transverse piceous spots; pronotum with two arcuate, angulate, oblique brown fasciae, commencing near posterior angle, and meeting near anterior margin, on posterior margin a series of irregular brown spots, a few brown speckles on disk; scutellum umber-brown; face black below the region of eyes; abdomen above ochraceous with three series of transverse piceous spots, abdomen beneath ochraceous with fuscous mottlings; legs with irregular piceous annulations; tegmina subhyaline, basal area, an oblique transverse fascia before middle, and small spots on veins and costal margin, brown or piceous; scutellar elevation obtusely angulate. Long. incl. tegm. ♂ and ♀, 8 to 8½ m.; excl. tegm. 7 mm; exp. tegm. 16 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 [197]

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

 

General References

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

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)