Species Nirvanguina placida (Evans, 1966)

Nirvanguina placida (Evans), holotype female.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lamia placida Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [221].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: i.1959, D. McAlpine), Lake Placid, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Nirvanguina placida (Evans, 1966). —
  Zhang, Y. & Webb, M.D. 1996. A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 65(1): 1-103 [18]

Introduction

This odd little (4–4.6 mm) species has distinctive paired orange spots on the head and pronotum and a brown reticulated pattern on the forewings. It is found in Papua New Guinea as well as in the wet tropics of North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Face of head whitish. Crown white with four orange spots. Pronotum white with four anterior and four posterior orange spots. Scutellum white with obscure orange markings. Tegmen whitish with a brown scribble pattern. Length ♀ 4.8 mm (Evans 1966)

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [221]

History of changes