Species Kyphocotis tessellata Kirkaldy, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Kyphocotis tessellata Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [371].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: xi.1904 (type missing, Evans 1966)), Bundaberg, Queensland.
• Kyphocotis fasciata Distant, W.L. 1907. Contributions to a knowledge of the Ledrinae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 51: 185-197 [196].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2 ♂, 2 ♀, 1 nymph (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Townsville, Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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

 

Introduction

This species is found along the eastern coastline of Queensland with a single record from the Ord River in the NE corner of Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Dark brown, more or less tessellated and marmorated with pale golden and pale brown; apico-exterior third of tegmina subhyaline, more or less cinerous. Femora annulated with black. Vertex a little recurved, very narrow. Male unknown.
Female valve as in Stenocotis Length: 12 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

Pale greyish-brown with darker markings; vertex of head with longitudinal darker markings, the more prominent being at apex and on each lateral area; pronotum in ♂ with dark waved linear markings, gradually spreading outward at base, in the ♀ these appear as two irregular waved fasciae, a number of scattered minute dark dots on the central basai area; scutellum moderately laminately elevated, the crest-like convex process a little directed backward, the surface mottled with dark brown markings; head beneath much mottled wilh black, a more or less distinct angulated transverse fascia crossing face at region of the eyes and then obliquely directed downward on each side, in the ♂, the whole centre of the face is black; tegmina greyish-brown with blackish markings, the more prominent of which is a broken longitudinal discal fascia and spots on costal margin, near apex of clavus is a large greyish-spot and at end beyond its apex a smaller spot of the same colour; abdomen beneath piceous with the segmentai margins ochraceous; femora mottled or subannulated with piceous. Long, incl, tegm. ♂, 10; ♀, 14 mm. (Distant 1907, of K. fasciata).

 

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 [196–197]

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

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [371]

 

History of changes

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