Species Macroceratogonia aurea Kirkaldy, 1906

Macroceratogonia aurea Kirkaldy, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Macroceratogonia aurea Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [324].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM 2 ♀ (coll.: viii.1904, 'arboreal'), Kuranda, Queensland.
• Petalocephala aurescens Distant, W.L. 1920. Rhychota from New Caledonia. Part II. Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 9: 456-470 [466].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown, "Houadou" = Houailou?, New Caledonia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1974. New Caledonian leafhoppers and the systematic position of Kosmiopelix Kirkaldy and Euacanthella Evans (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 16(2-3): 165-175 [169]

Introduction

This species, which is normally bright golden yellow in life, is known from the wet tropics of North Queensland and from New Caledonia. It is quite distinctive in the Australian fauna with elongate antennae which reach well beyond the apices of the tegmina.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Pale golden yellow, tegmina appendix and underside paler. Eyes dark, and a small dark spot at base of appendix. Length 9 mill. (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 [324]

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