Species Phaconeura pluto Fennah, 1973
Compiler and date details
13 April 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Phaconeura pluto Fennah, R.G. 1973. Three new cavernicolous species of Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from Mexico and Western Australia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 86(38): 439-446 [444].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 25.xi.1972, J. Lowry), Quandong Cave, Nambung National Park, Western Australia.
Introduction
This was the first cave-adapted species of Phaconeura described from Australia. Hoch (1990) examined further specimens from neighbouring caves in Nambung National Park, Western Austraila, and found no differences between the populations in the different caves.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
IBRA
WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: cave dweller, phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Small species (2.3–2.5 mm) with body, legs and tegmen white. Tegmen reduced in length, not covering tip of abdomen, venation variable and partly vanishing. Wings vestigial. Compound eyes and ocelli absent. Median carina of vertex and frons absent. Hoch (1990) provides a description and illustrations of the male and female genitalia as well as head and tegmen.
Diagnosis References
Hoch, H. 1990. Cavernicolous Meenoplidae of the genus Phaconeura (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) from Australia. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 30: 188-203 [200]
History of changes
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15-Apr-2011 | 15-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |