Species Peltodictya kurandae Kirkaldy, 1906

Peltodictya kurandae Kirkaldy, adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Peltodictya kurandae Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [415].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, on grass), Kuranda, Queensland.
• Ficarasa australasiae Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xli. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 277-295 [287].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [416] (synonymy of Ficarasa australasiae Distant)

Introduction

This species is endemic to the wet tropics of North Queensland. It is the largest Australian species of Tropudichini reaching 12 mm in length. A second, undescribed, species of the genus is found in Papua New Guinea.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Grass green. Eyes and genital segment partly brownish. Veins lightly and shortly piligerouis. Length: 11¾ mill. (Kirkaldy 1906).

Pale ochraceous, in fresh specimens probably pale virescent; vertex broader than long, anterior and lateral margins ridged, centrally longitudinally carinate; face broadly elongate, a little ampliate towards clypeus, anterior and lateral margins ridged, centrally longitudinally carinate; clypeus centrally ridged, not much more than half the length of face; pronotum angularly produced between the eyes, tricarinate; mesonotum tricarinate; tegmina with the costal area obliquely transversely veined, two series of transverse veins beyond middle enclosing a space much narrower than that between it and the apical margin; posterior tibiae with three spines. Long. excl. tegm., 7½ mm; exp. tegm 21½ to 23 mm (Distant 1907, of Ficarasa australasiae Distant).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xli. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 277-295 [287]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [415]

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