Species Solonaima baylissa Hoch & Howarth, 1989
Compiler and date details
5 August 2010 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Solonaima baylissa Hoch, H. & Howarth, F.G. 1989. Six new cavernicolous cixiid planthoppers in the genus Solonaima from Australia (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Systematic Entomology 14: 377-402 [395].
Type data:
Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: deep cave zone, 600 m from entrance, 22.v.1985, D. Irvin & F.G. Howarth), Queensland, Mt Surprise, Rosella Plains Station, Undara lava flow, 700 m, Bayliss Cave.
Introduction
This is the most cave-adapted species of the genus Solonaima, regarded by Hoch & Howarth (1989) as being obligate cavernicolous. It is blind and colourless and known only from damp bad air caves in two lava flows near Mt Surprise in N. Queensland.
Distribution
States
Queensland
IBRA
Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: phloem feeder.
All stages: cave dweller.
Extra Ecological Information
Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.
Diagnosis
This species can be distinguished from all other members of the genus by the absence of eyes and ocelli, the rounded head, the reduction of both tegmina and wings as well as by the shape of the male genitalia. (Hoch & Howarth 1989)
ID Keys
Hoch & Howarth 1989: 382
Diagnosis References
Hoch, H. & Howarth, F.G. 1989. Six new cavernicolous cixiid planthoppers in the genus Solonaima from Australia (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Systematic Entomology 14: 377-402 [395]
General References
Hoch, H. & Howarth, F.G. 1989. Six new cavernicolous cixiid planthoppers in the genus Solonaima from Australia (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Systematic Entomology 14: 377-402 [395]
History of changes
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