Species Thanatodictya (Lucinda) bifasciata (Distant, 1893)

Thanatodictya (Lucinda) bifasciata (Distant), adult

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Dictyophora bifasciata 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].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (might be a holotype by monotypy), Peak Downs, Queensland.
• Thanatodictya (Lucinda) lucindae Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [392].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll: vii.1904), Lucinda Point, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [415]

Generic Combinations

• Thanatodictya (Lucinda) bifasciata (Distant, 1892). —
  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

This species, from coastal areas of North Queensland, the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia, is immediately recognisable by the longitudinal stripe along the centre of the tegmen. Whether all populations across this range are conspecific needs to be examined.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Testaceous, keels of head in front of eyes black; lateral margins of pronotum and scutellum (exterior to keels) and abdomen mostly, blackish brown. Tegmina hyaline, veins pallid, a longitudinal blackish brown entire stripe broadening apically. Legs brownish testaceous, narrowly striped with blackish brown. Length: 10–12 mill. (Kirkaldy 1906, as Thanatodictya (Lucinda) lucindae)

Body above ochraceous, with a broad lateral fuscous fascia on each side, from behind eyes to near apex of abdomen; body beneath and legs ochraceous, margins of the sternum fuscous. Tegmina ochraceous, with a broad central longitudinal fuscous fascia, widened at apex. Wings hyaline, with a large fuscous spot at apex. Structure of cephalic process much as in preceding species (Dictyophora praeferrata, now Thanatodictya (Thanatodictya) praeferrata). Long, excl. tegm., 9 mm. Long. head, 3 mm. Long. tegm. 7 mm (Distant 1893)

ID Keys

Kirkaldy (1906: 392); Melichar (1912: 105)

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]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [392]

Melichar, L. 1912. Monographie der Dictyophorinen. Abhandlungen der K.K. Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 7(1): 1-221 [105]

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