Species Hecalocratus pallidus Evans, 1966

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• Hecalocratus pallidus Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [135].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T-2677 ♀ (coll.: i.1951, C.McC.), Cairo Station, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This endemic species is known from six specimens from the type locality "Cairo Station" in Queensland and two in the ANIC from the Ord Victoria Plain in the Northern Territory. The type series was collected by Charles McCubbin, an associate of the Museum of Victoria, who collected in the Cairns, Kuranda and Weipa regions of North Queensland (Ken Walker, pers. comm. vii.2001). This would indicate that Cairo Station is likely to be associated with localities named Cairo Lagoon and Cairo Yards which are in the northen part of the Gulf Plains bioregion of North Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Gulf Plains (GUP), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration very pale brownish yellow. Crown and pronotum stippled with brown, the brown dots, in part, arranged to form indistinct longitudinal stripes, of which there are six on the crown and ten on the pronotum. Scutellum with brown muscle impressions laterally. Tegmen pale hyaline brownish yellow; veins pale brown, in part stippled with brown. Length ♂ 6.2, ♀ 7.5 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [135]

 

History of changes

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