Species Phaconeura brimblecombei Woodward, 1957

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• Phaconeura brimblecombei Woodward, T.E. 1957. Studies on Queensland Hemiptera. Part II. Meenoplidae (Fulgoroidea). University of Queensland Papers, Department of Entomology 1(4): 57-70 [65].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T5546 ♂ (coll.: i.1934, A.R. Brimblecombe), Beenleigh, Queensland.

Introduction

This is a small dark species from SE Queensland. It was named "after its collector, Mr A.R. Brimblecombe, Department of Agriculture and Stock, Brisbane." (Woodward 1957).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Tegmina fuscous brown between veins but with a continuous broad, pale costal band along most of apical half and including all of cell 2c and beyond. Harpagones of male with subbasal anterior lobe. Aedeagus with two dorsolateral knobs anterior to gonopore; with a ventral process anteriorly recurved parallel to rest of aedeagus. Lateral lobes of periandrium hastate with outer margins conspicuously serrate. Ventral valvulae of female much longer than wide (Woodward 1957).

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 [58]

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