Species Hatralixia pallida Webb, 1983
Hatralixia pallida Webb, adult male.
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Species Hatralixia pallida Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
30 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Hatralixia pallida Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [88].
Type data:
Holotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: 18.iii.1961, 5 m, J.L. & M. Gressitt), Maningrida, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.
Introduction
This delicately marked little species is found in the extreme top end of the Northern Territory.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Darwin Coastal (DAC)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Pronotum with a faint brown mark adjacent to each lateral area of vertex. Male pygophore with a pair of ventral triangular posterior lobes. Segment X expanded posteriorly in lateral aspect. Aedeagus with a short basal stem; socle region narrow; shaft tapered distally to narrowly rounded apex, a pair of moderately long processes arising at midlength of posterior margin, curved ventrally. Female genitalia with posterior margin of pregenital sternite slightly concave medially. Expanded apex of third valvulae about two thirds length of narrow basal region and extended about half its length beyond pygophore. Length ♂ 3.0 mm, ♀ 3.6 mm. (Webb 1983).
Diagnosis References
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [88–89]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |