Species Tharra labena Kirkaldy, 1906

Tharra labena Kirkaldy, adult.

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• Tharra labena Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [325].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: viii.1904, Perkins, 'arboreal'; holotype by monotypy), Kuranda, Queensland.

Introduction

This, the type species of the genus, is found in the wet tropics of North Queensland and the NE of New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Vertex sordid testaceous; frons blackish, rest of face, sterna, basal half of abdomen beneath, legs (except as undermentioned) etc, more or less pale luteous. Eyes, apical half of abdomen beneath, genital valve (female), apical half of posterior tibiae, posterior tarsi and all the claws, blackish. Pronotum and anterior half of scutellum sordid purplish brown, posterior half of scutellum sordid yellowish. Tegmina yellowish translucent, veins crimson; an irregular spot at extreme base of corium, a spot near apex of costal cell and about the apical half of each of the apical cells, etc., blackish. Wings dark smoky. Female: valve covered thickly with long, curling, rather coarse, white hairs. Length 5.3 mm, width at base of pronotum 1.25 mm (Kirkaldy 1906).
Nielson (1975) gives a detailed description, including of the male genitalia.

ID Keys

Nielson 1975: 35

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 [325]

Nielson, M.W. 1975. A revision of the subfamily Coelidiinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Tribes Tinobregmini, Sandersellini and Tharrini. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Supplement) 24: 1-197 [74]

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