Species Xestocephalus sidnicus Kirkaldy, 1907

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• Xestocephalus sidnicus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [53].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905, Koebele; possible holotype by monotypy), Sydney, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

The identity of this species is currently uncertain although it is based on a male syntype, which may be a holotype by monotypy. A revision of the genus in Australia is needed to determine species limits and adequately define the species.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Blackish-brown; legs pale brownish-testaceous, the hind tibiae with a blackish apical annulus and the apical half of the first and the whole of the second segment of the hind tarsi blackish. Tegmina fuscohyaline, veins blackish, 2 or 3 thin, curved transverse, fuscous lines on the apical fourth of the tegmina. Ocelli orange-brown. Vertex roundly angular in front, one-half longer in the middle than at the eyes. Length (male) 3¼ mill. (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 [53]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Mar-2012		22-Mar-2012	MOVED
22-Mar-2012		22-Mar-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)