Species Xestocephalus australensis Kirkaldy, 1907

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• Xestocephalus australensis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [52].

  Type data:

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

 

Introduction

This unremarkable species is known from coastal sites in 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

Like the last [X. pallidiceps Kirkaldy (Fiji)], but larger and yellower; tegmina with sparse brownish markings. Length 3½ mill. (Kirkaldy 1907).

Crown of head declivous, pale yellow, with irregular and variable brown markings. Pronotum brown with numerous white spots, some of which are not distinct and separate but merge into adjacent ones. Scutellum brown with four white spots. Tegmen, three shades of brown in an irregular pattern with a few white spots. Length ♀ 3–3½ mm (Evans 1966). Evans (1966) provided an illustration of the male genitalia of this species.

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [255]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [52]

 

History of changes

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