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Exitianus plebeius

Head-banded Planthopper

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Head-banded Planthopper

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: RANGE Australia - Societies

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: ??Introduced - Recent, Naturalised; Land, lowlands, in pastures & waysides

KEY FEATURES: To 4.5mmBL(m), 5.2mmBL(f). Distinguished by narrow black band across vertex behind the ocelli. Forewing ~transparent with brown veins forming longitudinal lines.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
P					P			P

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
			P

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Exitianus plebeius (Kirkaldy, 1906)
SYNONYMS: Neophotettix pleeius Kirkaldy, 1906

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PTERYGOTA; Hemiptera; Auchenorrhyncha; Fulgoroidea; CICADELLIDAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: specimens, 1937, C.E.Clarke - in Auckland Museum; specimens, Oneroa Motu, 1969/11, K.A.J.Wise - all in Eyles & Linnavuori (1974). Aitutaki: one male, Ootu, 1965/5, G.W.Ramsay; many specimens, 1969/9, Maina and Maungapu, K.A.J.Wise, all in Eyles & Linnavuori (1974). Manuae: one male, Te Aoutu, 1965/5, G.W.Ramsay in Eyles & Linnavuori (1974). Pukapuka: specimens+photo, 2004/3, off grass, G.McCormack with ID as CicadellidQQPK08, re-ID G.McCormack 2007/6 to Exitianus plebeius after Eyles & Linnavuori (1974).

References:
Special Reference: Eyles, A.C. & Linnavuori, R. (1974) Cicadellidae and issidae (Homoptera) of Niue Island, and material from the Cook Islands. NZ.J.Zool. 1(1):29-44.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB06b, zupB07a, zM06b, zD07a

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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