Species Heronax pallescens (Distant, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Fenuahala pallescens Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [413].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Heronax pallescens (Distant, 1907). —
  Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [176]

Introduction

A small delicate pallid species described from "Queensland". The type material was collected by F.P. Dodd, the Butterfly Man of Kuranda, who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland (Monteith 1991) and it is probable that this is the source of the type material.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

Body above pale tawny, more or less greyishly tomentose; vertex of head cretaceous white; eyes piceous; body beneath and legs stramineous, apex of abdomen slightly testaceous; tegmina and wings subhyaline, with a slight opaline lustre, the veins very pale dull ochraceous; tegmina with the inner claval margin pale dull ochraceous. Long., excl. tegm. 2.5 mm; exp. tegm. 12.5 mm. (Distant 1907)

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [413]

General References

Monteith, G.B. 1991. The Butterfly Man of Kuranda, Frederick Parkhurst Dodd. South Brisbane : Queensland Museum 1, 34 pp. [ISBN 0 7242 4481 6]

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