Species Kallitambinia australis Muir, 1931

Kallitambinia australis Muir, adult on river mangrove at Patonga, New South Wales.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

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• Kallitambinia australis Muir, F. 1931. Descriptions and records of Fulgoroidea from Australia and the South Pacific Islands. No 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(2): 63-83 [74].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: v.1925, H. Hacker (five females are in the type series, the "Type" in BMNH and a paratype in AM. Other paratypes are in BMNH or AM, presumably)), Brisbane, Queensland.

Introduction

This delicate bright green planthopper appears to be associated with river mangroves, Aegiceras corniculatum (L.) Blanco (Primulaceae), having been collected from these plants at more than one site on the New South Wales coast. Fletcher (1979) provided details of egg laying by the species and Fletcher (1981) provided detailed descriptions of the life stages, including adult morphology.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Aegiceras corniculatum (L.) Blanco [PRIMULACEAE] River Mangrove).

Diagnosis

Pale green. The clavus and corium darker green, the veins green. Wings hyaline with green veins. ♀. Length, 5.2 mm; tegmen 6.1 mm (Muir 1931).

Diagnosis References

Muir, F. 1931. Descriptions and records of Fulgoroidea from Australia and the South Pacific Islands. No 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(2): 63-83 [74]

General References

Fletcher, M.J. 1979. Egg types and oviposition behaviour in some fulgoroid leafhoppers (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea). Australian Entomological Magazine 6: 13–18 [15–16]

Fletcher, M.J. 1981. The external morphology of Kallitambinia australis Muir (Homoptera, Tropiduchidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 20: 157-165 [157]

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