Species Solonaima cedrivula Hoch, 1988
Compiler and date details
13 August 2010 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Solonaima cedrivula Hoch, H. 1988. Five new epigean species of the Australian planthopper genus Solonaima Kirkaldy (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae). The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 5(1): 125-133 [131].
Type data:
Holotype QM ♂ (coll: 1986ft, E.C. Dahms, 1.ii.1965, at light), Little Cedar Creek, Mt Spec, Queensland.
Introduction
An epigean species based on a single male specimen from the NE Queensland wet tropics.
Distribution
States
Queensland
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: phloem feeder.
Extra Ecological Information
Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.
Diagnosis
This species externally resembles S. pallescens but can be distinguished by the arrangement of the aedeagal spines: Basal part of aedeagus left laterally without any spinose processes near its base, right laterally with two slender spines, the superior one directed caudad, the inferior one directed basad. (Hoch 1988)
ID Keys
Hoch (1988: 126)
Diagnosis References
Hoch, H. 1988. Five new epigean species of the Australian planthopper genus Solonaima Kirkaldy (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae). The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 5(1): 125-133 [131]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 13-Oct-2010 | 13-Oct-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |