Subspecies Phaconeura smithi smithi Woodward, 1957

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• Phaconeura smithi smithi Woodward, T.E. 1957. Studies on Queensland Hemiptera. Part II. Meenoplidae (Fulgoroidea). University of Queensland Papers, Department of Entomology 1(4): 57-70 [62].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T5548 ♂ (coll.: 4.iii.1931, J.H. Smith, ex Paspalum), East Barron, Atherton Tableland, Queensland.

Introduction

This subspecies is from the Atherton Tableland in the wet tropics of North Queensland and is therefore well isolated from P/ smithi lamingtoni Woodward from the Lamington Plateau of SE Queensland. The two subspecies can be differentiated on the basis of features of the male genitalia.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Periandrial lobes smaller and relatively narrow; apical part of harpagones more curved, subbasal lobe larger, more broadly rounded (Woodward 1957). These features are illustrated for both subspecies by Woodward (1957, figs 3–4).

Diagnosis References

Woodward, T.E. 1957. Studies on Queensland Hemiptera. Part II. Meenoplidae (Fulgoroidea). University of Queensland Papers, Department of Entomology 1(4): 57-70 [62–63]

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