Species Limotettix tachyporias Kirkaldy, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Limotettix tachyporias Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [64].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: ix.-xii.1904, Koebele), Bundaberg, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1993. Lectotype designations and new synonymies for G. W. Kirkaldy's Australian Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) held in the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. General and Applied Entomology 25: 35-59 [52].

 

Introduction

This species from Queensland has little in common with other species of Limotettix and its true affinities have yet to be determined.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Gulf Plains (GUP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pale yellowish, tergites and the underside paler. Frons basally and the lateral angles of pronotum blackish brown. Tegmina hyaline with an entire longitudinal, blackish brown median stripe. Vertex rounded (slightly angulate) extending in front of eyes, a trifle longer than wide at base. Male: 7th segment very slightly produced in the middle. Length: ♂ 3 7/8, ♀ 4 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [64]

 

History of changes

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05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)