Species Phenelia elidipteroides Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Phenelia elidipteroides Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [422].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vii-viii, 1904; possible holotype by monotypy), Cairns, Queensland.

Introduction

A small dark species from N. Queensland. Examination of the type material in BPB will be required to establish its identity.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum, serna and legs, yellowish testaceous, a little browner on vertex. Scutellum dark ferruginous. Tegmina hyaline, tinged with cinereous; keels of scutellum and basal veins of tegmina more or less obscurely sanguineous, apical and subapical veins, apex of costal cell and the entire apical cell adjoining, bright sanguineous; the base of that apical cell, bluish black. Abdomen mostly black. Length: 2.5 mm to apex of abdomen, 4.5 to apex of tegmina. (Kirkaldy 1906)

Fennah (1950: 140) figured the head and pronotum in dorsal view.

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [140]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [422]

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