Species Lipocallia australensis Kirkaldy, 1906

Lipocallia australensis Kirkaldy, male syntype

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Lipocallia australensis Kirkaldy, female syntype

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lipocallia australensis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [441].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: i-ii.1905, arboreal), Sydney, New South Wales.

Introduction

This tiny pebblebug is known from the Sydney basin of New South Wales. Because it is small and cryptically coloured, it is probably overlooked by collectors.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum, etc, testaceous, very closely and finely mottled with dark brown. Tegmina whitish testaceous, many of the reticulations wholly or partly brownish. Legs mostly blackish brown. Tergites black and white alternately. Genital segments black. Length: 3½ mm, height 2¼ mm. There is sometimes a more or less obscure blackish band across the middle of the tegmen (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 [441]

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