Species Lamenia leucoptera (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Lamenia leucoptera (Kirkaldy), adult

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Thyrocephalus leucopterus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [430].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, on grasses), Cairns, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Lamenia leucoptera (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Metcalf, Z.P. 1945. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea. Part 4, Derbidae. Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 212 pp. [125]

Introduction

The relationship of this species to others in the Pacific and Oriental genus Lamenia needs to be examined. There may also be more species present in North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum legs etc., pale testaceous, frons more or less sordid. Scutellum pale yellow. Abdomen blackish, posterior margin of each segment narrowly pallid. Tegmina and wings subopaque milky, apex of costal cell infuscate. Length: 3–3.5 mm to apex of abdomen, 5–6 to apex of tegmina (Kirkaldy 1906)

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [430]

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