Species Haplodelphax naias Kirkaldy, 1907

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• Haplodelphax naias Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [146].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales.

Introduction

A species based on brachypterous females from the Sydney region of New South Wales. The identity of this species, and others described by Kirkaldy (1907) is dependent on matching male specimens with Kirkaldy's female type series.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

The brachypterous females differ from those of the genotype, by being darker. The tergites are brown with a very narrow yellowish median line; there is a submedian and a lateral stripe on each segment, both being narrow and black, and the former is bordered internally by a narrow yellowish stripe, and externally on the apical three tergites by a similar one, etc. Length: 3 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907)

ID Keys

Kirkaldy 1907: 145

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [146]

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