Species Thanatodictya (Niculda) hebe Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Thanatodictya (Niculda) hebe Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [393].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: ii.1905), Sydney, New South Wales
  Comment: Might be a holotype by monotypy.

Introduction

This is a dark coloured species with a white stripe down the middle of the thorax dorsally. The other species of the genus also have a similar pale stripe but their general body colour is paler. T. (N.) hebe was described from Sydney, New South Wales, but its identity needs to be determined based on the original type material.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

More or less sordid ferrugineous. Keels on head black in front of eyes. Pronotum with a longitudinal ivory white line broadening out on the scutellum, the posterior angle being entirely ivory white. Lateral margins of the ventral part of the pronotum, lateral margins of mesopleura, etc, ivory white. Tegmina colourless, hyaline; veins, stigma and a smudge from apex of claval suture obliquely to apex of tegmen, blackish or brownish black. Abdomen marked with black. Length: 11 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906)

ID Keys

Kirkaldy (1906: 392)

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 [393]

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