Species Neovulturnus vultuosus (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vulturnus vultuosus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [84].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, Perkins), Cairns, Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904, Perkins), Nelson (=Gordonvale), Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, Perkins), Kuranda, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Neovulturnus vultuosus (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [151]

 

Introduction

Another beautifully enamelled species in this remarkable genus. This one has only been found in the wet tropics of North Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Very close to V. vaecors, but smaller, narrower and darker. Vertex a little shorter. Pronotum with a well marked white fascia and some black marks as well as the pale brown mottlings. Female: last segment with 2 tiny median notches. Length 3¾–4 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 [84]

 

History of changes

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05-Dec-2019		25-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		01-Jun-2011	MOVED
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