Species Rhotana haematoneura Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Rhotana haematoneura Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [435].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, arboreal), Kuranda, Queensland.

Introduction

This species was distinguished by the veins of the tegmen being red. It is known from the wet tropics of north Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Ventral part of frons, smaller and narrower [than R. chrysonoe, now in Saccharodite], less elevated laterally, etc. Pale yellowish testaceous, scutellum more or less infuscate basally. Tegmina hyaline, largely clouded with brownish, veins sanguineous. Tergites infuscate. Length: 5 mm (Kirkaldy 1906).

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 [435–436]

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