Species Philagra fulvida Hacker, 1926

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• Philagra fulvida Hacker, H. 1926. New species of Queensland Cercopidae (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3): 243-248 [245].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM ♀ (coll.: xii.1921, H. Hacker), National Park, Queensland.
  Paralectotype(s) QM 10 ♂, 2 ♀, 1 sex unknown (coll.: xii.1921, H. Hacker), National Park, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. A review of the Australian aphrophorid spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42(1): 84-93 [89].

 

Introduction

This species is similar to P. concolor in lacking dark bands or markings on the tegmen but the tegmen bears rows of round pit-like spots.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

Nymph: live in spittle.

 

Diagnosis

Female - Head as long as wide, slightly ascendant, compressed apically, with a dorsal carina, and a lateral one running to each eye, in front of which they become strong acute ridges; frons elongate, centrally smooth, with a number of oblique ridges on each side; clypeus smooth, rostrum reaching the intermediate coxae; pronotum and scutellum punctate, the latter more finely; tegmina closely and finely punctured, amongst which are scattered many large impressed punctures; widest one third from base, narrowing apically, costal margin strongly arcuate; entire dorsal surface covered with a fine golden pubescence. Colour fulvescent; apex of cephalic prolongation, large punctures on tegmina, and two oblique fascia through centre of tegmina, fuscous; space on tegmina enclosed by fasciae, an obscure fascia at apex of clavus, central stripe on frons and clypeus, luteous; wings dusky brown, iridescent, darker on apical margin; abdomen reddish brown; ovipositor blackish. Length 11 mm., exp. 18 mm.
Male - differs from the female in its smaller size - length 8.5 mm., exp. 15 mm. - and its shorteralmost wedge-shaped head, about as wide as long. (Hacker 1926)

Length, male & female, 8-11 mm. General coloration yellowish-brown, the tegmen with a central pale fascia, which may be interrupted by a darker area. Crown of head triangular, shorter than the combined length of the pronotum and scutellum. (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 [322]

Hacker, H. 1926. New species of Queensland Cercopidae (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3): 243-248 [245]

 

History of changes

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