Species Cedusa kulia (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lamenia kulia Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [403].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vii-viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904, on grass), Nelson (=Gordonvale), Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Cedusa kulia (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [36]

Introduction

This species, which probably doesn't belong in Cedusa, is based on specimens from two localities in the wet tropics of North Queensland. Kirkaldy (1906) indicates that the specimen(s) from Nelson (now known as Gordonvale) were collected from grass.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

Vertex and pronotum sordid brownish, frons and clypeus sordid ferruginous. Scutellum polished black. Tegmina subhyaline, dark smoky, with a blue tinge. Legs pale. Abdomen more or less blackish. Vertex very short, transverse, anteriorly roundly truncate; frons with lateral margins sinuate, apically widened. Length 3 mill to apex of abdomen, 4.75–5 mill to apex of tegmina (Kirkaldy 1906).

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [403–404]

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