Species Vulturnus voltumna Kirkaldy, 1907

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• Vulturnus voltumna Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [83].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, Koebele), Kuranda, Queensland.
• Vulturnus virgidemia Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [83].

  Type data:

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

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [217] (synonymy of V. virgidemia)

 

Introduction

This pale coloured species was described from the wet tropics of North Queensland but is also known from Bundaberg in SE Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Closely allied to V. vulturnus, but vertex a little shorter, not longer than pronotum, strongly impressed transversely in the middle, basal part declivous, apical part slightly recurved, almost porrect instead of declivous as in V. vulturnus. Vertex strongly, pronotum sparingly, mottled with blackish brown; scutellum marked with same colour. Tegmina heavily smudged with black. Underside black except the non-foliaceous part of frons and the basal margin (narrowly) of the foliaceous part, sordid orange. Anterior legs and bristles on the others, yellowish testaceous. Female. Genital segment much as in V. vulturnus. Length 4 1/3 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [83]

 

History of changes

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