Genus Phacalastor Kirkaldy, 1906

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Regional Maps

• Phacalastor Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [408].

  Type species:

   Phacalastor pseudomaidis Kirkaldy, 1906 by original designation.

Introduction

The single Australian species in this genus is listed in Charles Bartlett's delphacid database at http://ctap.inhs.uiuc.edu/dmitriev/index.asp as a species of Dicranotropis Fieber, as first suggested in a figure caption by Kirkaldy (1907). Fennah (1965) had the species back in Phacalastor and this is followed here because of the doubt that Dicranotropis, and other genera created for the Palaearctic fauna by Fieber (1866), are genuinely represented in Australia.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Very close to Peregrinus, differing principally by the tegminal veins being very strongly granulate (Kirkaldy 1906)

Frons with median carina forked about the middle; antennae with basal segment triangular and compressed; vertex about as broad as long (Fennah 1965)

ID Keys

Fennah 1965: 4

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [4]

General References

Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [17]

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