Species Deferunda majella (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Majella majella Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [421].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904 (Nelson), viii.1904 (Cairns)), Nelson (=Gordonvale), Cairns, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Deferunda majella (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [104]

Introduction

A small, pale brown species which needs examination of the original type material for determination of its identity.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

Pale cinereous or testaceous, a thin short dark brown line on vertex anteriorly on either side of median keel. Scutellum suffused with fulvescent, posterior part of keels pale yellowish. Tegminal veins mostly darker, thickly granulate all over, granules mostly pale; apex of clavus sanguineous with a large bluish-black spot; base of first apical cell sanguineous. Abdomen mostly brownish black. The lateral margins of the vertex converge slightly, but do not meet anteriorly. Frons posteriorly somewhat excavate, the lateral margins there being broad and subvertical. Length: (male) 4, (female) 4 7/8 - 5 mill. (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 [421]

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