Species Phaconeura smithi Woodward, 1957

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Regional Maps

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

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T5548 ♂ (coll.: 4.iii.1931, J.H. Smith, ex Paspalum), East Barron, Atherton Tableland, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Woodward, T.E. 1957. Studies on Queensland Hemiptera. Part II. Meenoplidae (Fulgoroidea). University of Queensland Papers, Department of Entomology 1(4): 57-70 [63]

Introduction

This species comprises two subspecies, the nominal one from the wet tropics of North Queensland and P. smithi lamingtoni Woodward from SE Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Small, length 2.4–3.0 mm (male), 2.7–3.3 mm (female). Tegmen pale brown between veins, without a continuous broad pale costal band. Cu1a and M3+4 fused beyond i-m. Aedeagus with a large ventral membranous lobe, Periandrium with lateral lobes narrow, acuminate, about as long as median lobe an dcompletely covered by it above. Female with last sternum widest posteriorly; ventral valvulae subglobular; posterior angles of anal segment not outwardly produced (Woodward 1957).

ID Keys

Woodward 1957: 58–59

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 [58]

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