Species Phaconeura froggatti Kirkaldy, 1906

Phaconeura froggatti Kirkaldy, adult

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• Phaconeura froggatti Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [427].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905), Sydney, New South Wales.

Introduction

This is the common species of meenoplid in the coastal regions of southeastern Australia. It has been collected from Sydney and the Blue Mountains in New South Wales to Melbourne, Victoria. It is probably present in a number of other locations in both states but, being small and dark, is probably overlooked by most collectors. It has been collected from Exocarpos sp. (Santalaceae) but it is not known if this is a host plant.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Piceous, tegmina paler, hyaline. Lateral margins and keels of head, pronotum and scutellum, clypeus, rostrum and legs, veins, tegminal granules, posterior margins of tergites, etc, yellowish testaceous. Length: 2½ mm to apex of abdomen, 4 mm to apex of tegmina (Kirkaldy 1906).

In life, the species are usually covered in a greyish white powder.

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 [427–428]

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