Genus Peltodictya Kirkaldy, 1906

Peltodictya kurandae Kirkaldy, type species of Peltodictya Kirkaldy.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Peltodictya Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [414].

  Type species:

   Peltodictya kurandae Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy.

Introduction

This currently monotypic genus is found in the wet tropics of North Queensland as well as in the Mount Lamington district of Papua New Guinea, athough the identity of the PNG material is yet to be determined. The type species is larger than other Australian Tropiduchini, reaching 12 mm in length.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Allied closely to Epora Walker, but the apical area of the tegmina is much longer, and there are two very distinct, though sinuate, subapical lines. Vertex about twice as broad as long, extending a little in front of the eyes, rounded anteriorly, rectangularly emarginate posteriorly, strongly carinate medianly. Eyes prominent, but not extending laterally nearly as far as the pronotum. Frons more than twice as long as broad, strongly carinate medianly. Pronotum deeply acutangularly emarginate, with a strong median keel, and a lateral oblique one on each side. Sctuellum longer than vertex and pronotum together, with 3 strong keels, the lateral ones sinuate, uniting anteriorly with the median. Radial and median veins nearly approximate at base, the former forking somewhat near the base, outer branch reforking; median not forked; cubital forked a little nearer the apex than the radial. Costal cell with about 12 simple crossveins; subcostal cell present. A large number of apical cells and about 8 subapicals. Tibiae with three spines (Kirkaldy 1906).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2001) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Tropiduchidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/tropid/tropid00.htm

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 [414–415]

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