Species Megamelus leimonias (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

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

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Tarophagus leimonias (Kirkaldy, 1907).
• Megamelus leimonias (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Muir, F. 1917. Homopterous Notes. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 3(4): 311-338 [328]

Introduction

This species is based on brachypterous females from the wet tropics of North Queensland. It is almost certainly not a true Megamelus. Zimmerman (1948) suggested that it could be a species of Tarophagus but did not formally transfer the species.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Short winged form: closely allied to the last [kaha Kirkaldy] but tegmina dark fuscous subapically, apically opaque, margins ivory-white, broken in places by the dark tint. Median keel of frons and clypeus ivory-white. Tergites dark fuscous, medianly white. Length 2 1/3 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 [159]

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