Species Heronax parnassius Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Heronax parnassius Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [431].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM sex unknown (coll.: viii.1904, on trees; holotype by monotypy see Muir 1924: 32), Kuranda, Queensland.

Introduction

This species was described from Kuranda, in the wet tropics of North Queensland, Muir (1924) suggested that H. dubius might be a synonym and, if this were proved to be correct, the distribution of the species would be extended to SE Queensland.

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

Whitish testaceous, more or less sordidly infuscate. Tegmina with brownish spots on the costal cell, an irregular brownish band across tegmina (not costal cell) medianly, and the veins (at least partly) widely infuscate. Tibiae annulated with blackish brown. Disk of vertex deeply excavated, lateral margins narrowly flat. Apical of the eyes, the frons widens out triangularly but is not so wide apically as the base of the ecarinate clypeus. Length: 3.25 mill to apex of abdomen, 7 to apex of tegmen (Kirkaldy 1906).

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [431–432]

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