Species Thrasymemnon kaha (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Delphax kaha Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [158].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Megamelus kaha (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Muir, F. 1917. Homopterous Notes. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 3(4): 311-338 [328]
• Thrasymemnon kaha (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [43]

Introduction

This species was described from both a long-winged form and a short winged form from Kuranda in the wet tropics of North Queensland and subsequently also recorded from SE Queensland. Kirkaldy (1907) notes that a figure is provided of the tegmen of the long-winged form but he only provided figures of the male genitalia. Fennah (1965) provided a figure of the long-winged tegmen as well as three views of the head and pronotum..

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Dark brownish-black, a whitish median stripe on head dorsally, pronotum and scutellum. Commissure basally the same. Frontal keels, antennae, legs, spots on pleurites, etc., yellowish testaceous. Tergites orange-yellow, more or less marked with fuscous, especially laterally. Spur with 15 teeth. Pronotum with lateral keels curvedly divergent. Long-winged: tegmina milky hyaline and dark fuscous. Short-winged: tegmina fuscous, commissure whitish, a black spot on apical margin of tegmina. Male: pygophor with sinuate outline. Lip produced. Anal tube without spines. Aedeagus with a curious angularly bent appendage. Genital styles rather small, obliquely truncate basally, nearly touching apically. Length 3 (macr.), 2 (brach.) mm. (Kirkaldy 1907)

ID Keys

Kirkaldy 1907: 150–151

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [158–159]

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