Species Kahaono viridis Evans, 1966
Kahaono viridis Evans, adult female, from Collinsville, N. Queensland.
© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.
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Species Kahaono viridis Evans, 1966
Compiler and date details
18 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Kahaono viridis Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [261].
Type data:
Holotype AM K68464 ♂ (coll.: 1.vi.1965. J.W. Evans), Wilson's Valley, Mt Kosciuszko, New South Wales.
Introduction
This species is supposedly uniformly green in life but specimens from Queensland which match the figures of the male genitalia as drawn by Evans (1966) have distinctive reddish longitudinal stripes on the tegmen and pronotum (see image provided here). The species is either variable in colour and widely distributed or the known material includes cryptic species with very similar male genitalia.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: parenchyma feeder.
Diagnosis
General coloration green (live specimens), pale yellowish brown (spirit specimens). Face of head yellowish or blackish brown, posterior apex of frontoclypeus pale yellowish. Tegmen pale yellowish hyaline, apically sometimes smoky; veins apically, sometimes pink. Ventral surface (mature specimens) black, the metasternum and seventh and eighth abdominal segments in part whitish. Length ♂ 3.5, ♀ 4.2 mm (Evans 1966).
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [261]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 26-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |