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| Common Name: Green Rice Leafhopper
Subfamily/Tribe: Deltocephalinae: Athysanini Distribution:
Qld,
PNG, Oriental region
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| Economic Status: The species
is a known vector of rice dwarf phytoreovirus, rice gall dwarf phytoreovirus
and rice transitory yellowing rhabdovirus in the Oriental region (Brunt
et
al. 1990), although not recorded on rice in Qld by Kay
and Brown (1992).
Notes: There is some variation in the extent of the black coloration between males and females but the transverse black band on the vertex and the central black patch on the tegmen are distinctive. |
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