Species Heronax infuscata (Distant, 1907)
Compiler and date details
13 January 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Fenuahala infuscata Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [412].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland.
Generic Combinations
- Heronax infuscata (Distant, 1907). —
Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [59]
Introduction
A pretty and delicate species from the wet tropics of North Queensland. Kirkaldy (1907) suggested that it was a synonym of H. parnassius but this was not accepted by Muir (1913) without further information, particularly about the abdominal ventral plate of the female and the profile of the head of H. infuscata.
Distribution
States
Queensland
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: phloem feeder.
Extra Ecological Information
Nymph may be fungal feeder
Diagnosis
Body above pale dull umber-brown, abdomen with darker and paler suffusions; body beneath a little paler than above; legs stramineous, apices of femora and annulations to tibiae fuscous brown; tegmina pale hyaline, talc-like, the veins fuscous brown, the same colour more or less suffuses the apical areas and irregularly appears on disk and more palely so in clavus, costal area with transverse fuscous spots; near centre of subapical margin is a prominent piceous spot; wings pale hyaline. Long., excl. tegmen, 3 mm; exp. tegm. 16 mm (Distant 1907)
Diagnosis References
Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [412–413]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28-Jan-2011 | 28-Jan-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |