Species Vulturnus vulturnus Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Vulturnus vulturnus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [463].

  Type data:

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

 

Introduction

This nicely marked pale species is known from several locations along the eastern coastline of mainland Australia from Cape York Peninsular in North Queensland to the Sydney basin of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pale orange, somewhat sordid, the pronotum somewhat suffused with olivaceous. Scutellum with anterior angles and a short slender median transverse line, olivaceous. Foliaceous part of vertex, a spot on the disk and the lateral margins, of the genae, etc.. orange; rest of sterna, sternites, etc., testaceous. Tegmina subhyaline costally, milky subopaque inwardly, veins brown and yellowish, cubital area with many short transverse veins, inner discoidal and the two inner subapicals closely irrorate; clavus irrorate. Wings dark smoky. Vertex similar in shape to Thaumatoscopus, but shorter. Female: Last segment transverse, bisinuate, slightly produced obtusely in the middle, last sternopleural segment toothed intero-laterally near the base. Ovipositor black. Length: 4½ 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 [463]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		01-Jun-2011	MOVED
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