Species Paradaksha meeki Distant, 1910

Paradaksha meeki Distant, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paradaksha meeki Distant, W.L. 1910. Rhynchota Malayana. Part III. Records of the Indian Museum 5: 313-338 [327].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll: Meek), Cedar Bay, S. of Cooktown, Queensland
  Comment: Medler (1990) recognised a holotype although Distant (1910) did not indicate that he only had one specimen.
• Neomelicharia furtiva Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [452] [misidentification of Colgar furtiva Melichar, 1902].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Medler, J.T. 2001. Flatidae of New Guinea and adjacent areas (Homoptera: Flatidae). Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 8: 1-117 [81] (synonymy of Neomelicharia furtiva, sensu Kirkaldy)

Introduction

This species, which is known from New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, has also been recorded in the wet tropics of North Queensland. It is an unmistakeable large white species with two elongate black markings on the tegmen.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Body and legs dull ochraceous; tarsi apically black; tegmina greyish white, the margins narrowly, somewhat faintly, fuscous; two discal black spots, one near base, the other near middle, the base and claval area moderately ochraceous; wings milky white. Long. excl tegm. 9 mm. Exp. tegm 30 mm. (Distant 1910).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1910. Rhynchota Malayana. Part III. Records of the Indian Museum 5: 313-338 [327]

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