Species Chlorocysta vitripennis (Westwood, 1851)

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• Cystosoma (Chlorocysta) vitripennis Westwood, J.O. 1851. Descriptions of some new species of exotic homopterous insects. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 7: 207-210 [208].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP unknown (specimen lost), New Holland.
• Cicada congrua Walker, F. 1862. Characters of undescribed species of Homoptera in the collection of F.P. Pascoe, F.L.S. Journal of Entomology A 1: 303-319 [303-304].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀ (for information on the type, see Distant (1905) and Moulds (1990)), Moreton Bay, QLD.
• Chlorocysta macrula Stäl, C. 1863. Hemipterorum exoticorum generum et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptiones. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 3 1: 571-603 [575].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Moreton Bay, QLD.
• Kanakia congrua Goding, F.W. & Froggatt, W.W. 1904. Monograph of the Australian Cicadidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29(3): 561-670, pls xviii, xix [656-657].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) ♀ (for information on the type, see Moulds (1990)), Brisbane, QLD.

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Low shrubland, xylem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Leafy shrubs and trees, in both bushland and gardens.

 

General References

Distant, W.L. 1905. Rhynchotal notes–XXXIV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 203-21 [216]