Species Scolypopa kurandae Kirkaldy, 1906

Scolypopa kurandae Kirkaldy, adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Scolypopa 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 [450].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM sex unknown (coll.: viii.1904, one example on a dwarf Casuarina in a rocky, wind-swept place on the banks of the Baron River), Kuranda, Queensland.

Introduction

This evenly brown winged species is known from several localities in northern Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Gulf Plains (GUP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Not very closely allied to any other species. Brown; eyes pale reddish striped narrowly sub-concentrically with violet brown. Mesonotum blackish, carinae red brown. Beneath pale yellowish. Tegmina dark brown, a few of the nervures paler; one or two short, more or less obscure, darker transverse fasciae, a whitish triangular spot on the costal membrane; costal membrane and apical margin blackish. Frons with five distinct carinae, the sublateral keels being much more distinct than in A. [sic.] australis. Rostrum short, scarcely reaching to intermediate coxae. Length: 8 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 [450]

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