Species Smicrotatodelphax perkinsi Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Smicrotatodelphax perkinsi Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [412].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, quantity unknown, Cairns, Queensland.

Introduction

This is the smallest Australian delphacid. Kirkaldy gave it a length of 1.5 mm but Muir (1917) corrected this to 1.3 mm, presumably measuring Kirkaldy's original material. Kirkaldy (1906) implies that he had more than one specimen by the statement "Length: (males)" but this may have simply meant that the males of the species were of this length and he may have had only a single specimen on which he based this statement. The species was described from the wet tropics of North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Testaceous, frons embrowned, eyes black. Tegmina hyaline. [wings?*] hyaline. Tergites basally more or less pale orange brown, apex more or less black. Length: (males) 1.5 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906)
*Kirkaldy's description says "Tergites hyaline" followed by a description of the colour of the tergites. It is presumed that it is the hindwings which he intended as hyaline.

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 [412]

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