Species Phaconeura pallida Kirkaldy, 1906

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Regional Maps

• Phaconeura pallida Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [428].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: xi.1904), Bundaberg, Queensland.

Introduction

This species from low altitude regions of SE Queensland is paler than P. froggatti Kirkaldy and P. hackeri Woodward.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

This species differs from most other species of the genus in its paler colour, the very distinct male terminalia (the basal lobe of the harpagones is readily visible without dissection), the differently shaped female terminalia, Cu1a and M3+4 of tegmen almost always separated apically (Woodward 1957).

Diagnosis References

Woodward, T.E. 1957. Studies on Queensland Hemiptera. Part II. Meenoplidae (Fulgoroidea). University of Queensland Papers, Department of Entomology 1(4): 57-70 [60–62]

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