Species Solonaima pallescens (Distant, 1907)

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• Talaloa pallescens Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xli. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 277-295 [295].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH Female (coll.: iv.1904, F.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland; BMNH Male (coll.: v.1904, Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland; BMNH Female (coll.: v.1904, Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland
  Comment: Distant (1907) did not designate a holotype in his original publication but gave a range for size measurements, indicating that he had more than one specimen which are therefore syntypes. Hoch & Howarth (1989: 386) indicate that Distant's original material included three specimens, a female labeled in Distant's hand as type, and a topotypic male and female. Under the ICZN, Hoch & Howarth's (1989) publication that one of these is the "holotype" is invalid because it was not published as such in Distant's (1907) original description. In addition, it doesn't constitute a lectotype designation by default because ICZN Articles 74.5 and 74.6 exclude this possibility when the original publication indicates that syntypes exist. The specimens are therefore still syntypes and the male is available for lectotype designation.

Generic Combinations

• Solonaima pallescens (Distant, 1907). —
  Muir, F. 1925. On the genera of Cixiidae, Meenoplidae and Kinnaridae. (Fulgoroidea, Homoptera). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 1(3): 97-110 [104]

Introduction

The syntype series of three specimens, all from Kuranda, N. Queensland, are the only known specimens of this species.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

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 bizarre shape of its aedeagus. (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 [388]

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