Species Thanatodictya (Niculda) insignis (Distant, 1893)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dictyophora insignis Distant, W.L. 1893. Contributions to a knowledge of the homopterous family Fulgoridae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1892: 275-286 [279].
• Thanatodictya (Niculda) anadyomene 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] [junior subjective synonym of Dictyophora insignis Distant, 1892].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: ix-xii.1904), Bundaberg, Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: xi.1904, arboreal), Brisbane, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [415] (synonymy of T. (Niculda) anadyomene Kirkaldy)

Generic Combinations

• Thanatodictya (Niculda) insignis (Distant, 1893). —
  Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [394]

Introduction

A coastal species from SE Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Blackish or blackish brown; head testaceous or stramineous, except the apex, keels in front of the eyes and frontal area betwen submedian keels; base of vertex and disk of pronotum pale brownish testaceous, a longitudinal ivory white stripe on mesonotum extending to posterior angle. Underside pale, sordid, testaceous, marked with black. Tegmina and wings hyaline, colorless, veins pale brownish, apically many of them whitish; 2 black smudges, one from apex of suture to apex of tegmen broadly, the other on the stigma, etc. Head slightly ascending, about as long as the nota and abdomen together. Length 6.5 mm to apex of abdomen; 7.5-9.5 mm to apex of tegmina. (Kirkaldy 1906, as T. (N.) anadyomene)

Closely allied to the preceding species [Thanatodictya (Lucinda) bifasciata], but the cephalic process more nodulose at the base, which, together with the lateral areas, are castaneous. Tegmina without the longitudinal fasciae, but with the apical and one third of the inner margin and the stigma fuscous. Long. excl. tegm. 7 mm. Long. head, 3 mm. Long. tegm., 6 mm. (Distant 1893)

ID Keys

Kirkaldy (1906: 392)

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1893. Contributions to a knowledge of the homopterous family Fulgoridae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1892: 275-286 [279–280]

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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