Species Thaumatoscopus galeatus Kirkaldy, 1906

Thaumatoscopus galeatus Kirkaldy, adult.

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• Thaumatoscopus galeatus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [462].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.

Introduction

This is one of the larger species of Australian Penthimiini and appears to be an Australian extension of a New Guinean genus. It is known from far North Queensland and the northern coastline of the Northern Territory and has also been fouind in New Gunea.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Luteotestaceous; foliaceous part of frons orange red; the rest, as well as the basal two-thirds of genae and the base of clypeus and of lorae, black; rest of face, the rostrum, anterior and intermediate legs, testaceous. Prosternum and 4 spots on the apical margin of the scutellum, black. Tegmina pale luteotestaceous, more or less hyaline, veins opaque, pale luteous. Wings dark smoky. Abdomen yellowish, more or less suffused discally with brownish, sparingly marked with black. Posterior femora and tibiae mostly black. Female: Last segment transverse, apically bisinuate, the short median prolongation very minutely notched. Length: 7 mm, breadth 2¾ mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

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 [462–463]

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